Ubuntu
maas package

support installing in hybrid BIOS/UEFI mode

Bug #1750920 reported by Michael Hudson-Doyle
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
curtin
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned
maas (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently (unless I'm mistaken) curtin installs grub for whichever of BIOS/UEFI it was booted in. It would be nice for subiquity to be able to install in a way that can boot in either mode, in case the user twiddles their firmware settings or whatever.

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Ryan Harper (raharper) wrote :

This was briefly discussed at the last engineering sprint and ISTR that it may not be the best thing to do here. I'll leave this triaged/wishlist and if we get a concrete yes|no from foundations/grub/uefi folks, then we can either add to next cycle or mark won't fix with details as to why or why not.

Changed in curtin:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

We are doing this in ubiquity on the desktop today for 18.04 and later. It may not be necessary for the maas case, but I believe it's what we should be doing for the subiquity case, so that any Ubuntu-installed amd64 boot disk is portable across machines regardless of firmware configuration.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in maas (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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