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  1. Bug #1734147
  2. Comment #386

Comment 386 for bug 1734147

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Artur (radium88) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 17.10 corrupting BIOS - many LENOVO laptops models

You can't just install system on clean hdd from another pc, UUID of EFI partition will be different. UEFI attempts to boot only from partition with specific UUID.
For example:

root #efibootmgr -v

BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 3 seconds
BootOrder: 0003,0003,0002,0000,0004
Boot0000* CD/DVD Drive BIOS(3,0,00)
Boot0001* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)
Boot0002* Gentoo HD(1,800,61800,6d98f360-cb3e-4727-8fed-5ce0c040365d)File(\EFI\boot\bootx64.efi)
Boot0003* Hard Drive BIOS(2,0,00)P0: ST1500DM003-9YN16G

6d98f360-cb3e-4727-8fed-5ce0c040365d - is UUID of EFI partition

After installation on another PC you need manually change UUID of EFI partition via gdisk('x' command to enable additional options and after that 'c' command - change UUID)

But you need determine what UUID you must set. I did that by booting my system via PXE over network