netboot mini.iso doesn't support UEFI boot
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | debian-installer (Ubuntu) |
High
|
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre | ||
Bug Description
The amd64 mini.iso (in at least trusty through current vivid) has an EFI boot partition, but it's empty. This renders the image unbootable on systems without BIOS boot enabled.
This is easily worked around by copying {boot,grub}x64.efi from eg. a desktop image into the empty partition.
| tags: | added: trusty utopic vivid |
| Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #1 |
| Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Shih-Yuan Lee (fourdollars) wrote : | #2 |
This issue can be fixed by copying the whole 'EFI' folder of http://
| summary: |
- mini.iso's UEFI boot partition is empty + netboot mini.iso doesn't support UEFI BIOS mode installation. |
| summary: |
- netboot mini.iso doesn't support UEFI BIOS mode installation. + netboot mini.iso doesn't support UEFI boot |
| Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl) |
| importance: | Medium → High |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| tags: | added: wily |
| Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) wrote : | #3 |
When will this be fixed?
| Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote : | #4 |
I once had to install 14.04 LTS by booting from the mini ISO image on the internal hard disk instead of booting from a thumb drive made from that image (2008 Apple Macbook Pro can't boot from USB, can you believe that).
I wished the EFI folder of that ISO hadn't been empty.
| BPM (britishben) wrote : | #6 |
In the 16.04 mini.iso, extracting /boot/grub/efi.img to the root of the image works too - the UEFI support is provided, but not enabled.
| Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote : | #7 |
Is there a good reason why this is up to the user to do it, instead of done by default?
| Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) wrote : | #8 |
Orher than their LAZY I don't see any reason they can't do. They do it for their desktop cds and Debian does it for their daily net install isos
| Elliot Huffman (elliot-labs) wrote : | #9 |
Amd64 variant of the ubuntu netboot images does not include UEFI enabled by default.
Successfully enabled EFI by extracting the grub images like was suggested above.
Ubuntu version: 16.04.1 LTS x64 netboot mini.iso
| Naël (nathanael-naeri) wrote : | #10 |
@Elliot, can you give more details please? I don't know how to extract files to the root of an image and obtain a new image. I'd like to try.
| Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) wrote : | #11 |
You shouldn't have to do that, Ubuntu should fix the mini.iso. Debian's net install iso works with UEFI so Ubuntu's should as well.
| tags: | added: zesty |
| tags: |
added: yakkety removed: utopic vivid wily |
| Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) wrote : | #12 |
Will this ever be fixed?
| tags: | added: artful |
| tags: | removed: yakkety |
| Christopher Patrick (cpatrick08) wrote : | #13 |
Is this ever going to be fixed, if Debian can have it working so can you.
| tags: | added: bionic |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.