EFI information at boot is insufficient
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux-signed-hwe-5.8 (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu will insert information into the EFI firmware so that the user can make an informed decision from which disk to boot. However, that information can be insufficient a shown by the output from efibootmgr below.
BootCurrent: 0012
Timeout: 5 seconds
BootOrder: 0012,000C,
Boot0000 Startup Menu
Boot0001 System Information
Boot0002 Bios Setup
Boot0003 3rd Party Option ROM Management
Boot0004 System Diagnosticsenabling the user.
Boot0005 System Diagnostics
Boot0006 System Diagnostics
Boot0007 System Diagnostics
Boot0008 Boot Menu
Boot0009 HP Recovery
Boot000A Network Boot
Boot000B* Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 60A44C3FAFD5B06
Boot000C* ubuntu
Boot000D* Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 60A44C3FAFD5B06
Boot000E SATA CD:
Boot000F* KINGSTON SA400S37480G :
Boot0010 SATA CD:
Boot0011* ST1000DM010-2EP102
Boot0012* ubuntu
Boot0013* ST1000DM010-2EP102 :
Boot0014* INTEL SSDSC2BW120H6 :
Clearly, a specification of just "ubuntu" is not sufficient to make an informed decision.
I propose that the description be formatted, for example, as follows.
<hostname> on <os name> on <device address>
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: linux-image-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Jan 29 10:18:10 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-01-14 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
SourcePackage: linux-signed-
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
affects: | ubuntu → linux-signed-hwe-5.8 (Ubuntu) |