UEFI boot needs Experimental branch of Grub

[Dana Goyette]

Binary package hint: grub2

As discussed here, when booting with grub-efi-amd64, the system fails to find the initramfs image:

http://<email address hidden>/msg12623.html

It looks like the "experimental" branch of Grub makes this booting work, at least to where it sees the initramfs image. Unfortunately, since I had to install (mkimage) Grub manually, it broke in other ways that don't happen with the packaged Grub.

Note that my system is an HP EliteBook 8530w.

Also relevant: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-m-uefi-support

More specifically, I've heard that what I may need is the "newreloc" work.

[exactt (giesbert)]

have you checked if this problem is fixed in natty?

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Have you checked if this problem is still present in Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04 alpha?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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