No UEFI boot on Dell Precision M4500
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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casper (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: casper
I burned the Ubuntu 10.10 bèta to a CD-RW (and a DVD+-RW to rule out problems with media) and found out that the Ubuntu LiveCD won't boot. It gets to the grub prompt and then... Nothing. The thing I expected to see is (of course) the kernel loading and eventually the LiveCD environment.
The grub boot command for the installer is:
linux /casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/
initrd /casper/initrd.lz
if I remove 'only-ubiquity quiet splash' and replace that with 'debug=' I get no text on the screen whatsoever. It stays blank and after a while the DVD-ROM station spins downs and nothing's happening, so there isn't any useful debug output to show.
I'm sorry I can't provide you with more information, I hope there is some way to debug this problem.
I don't have the answer right now, but the good news is that I happen to
have the same model number as my test system for UEFI support, and it's
broken in the same way. I'm awaiting delivery of a docking station so
that I can debug this using a serial console.