18.04.1 Live CD fails to boot with EFI errors

[Shepherd King]

System Information:
Fujitsu T901, 16GB Ram, i5-2520M CPU
BIOS version: 1.15 (latest)
(laptop manufactured 2011)
Laptop does not support UEFI

The MD5 sums were verified for the live cd image.

The laptop is currently dual booted with Windows 10, Ubuntu 16.04 with separate hard drives. The live cd (a live USB) was intended to be used to install 18.04.

The error message at boot is:
Could not get fio for li->DeviceHandle: Invalid Parameter
Failed to find fs: Invalid Parameter
Failed to load image \EFI\BOOT\grubx64.efi: Invalid Parameter
start_image() returned Invalid Parameter

The laptop was verified to be BIOS-only. Under Windows 10, C:\Windows\Panther\setupact.log reports "Detected boot environment: BIOS". Under Ubuntu 16.04, "sudo efibootmgr" reports that "EFI variables are not supported on this system."

The system will successfully boot into a live cd environment using Knoppix 8.2, though it does report an error at boot time before proceeding with startup:
ERROR
Failed to start loader.efi: (14) Not Found

Subsequent testing has found that the 16.04.5 live cd has the same issue, but the original 16.04 live cd will boot correctly after first displaying the same error message mentioned above, so the bug was introduced sometime during Xenial.

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[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

> Laptop does not support UEFI

Then how and why is the firmware booting \efi\boot\bootx64.efi from this CD?

This is certainly not a syslinux bug, syslinux only provides a BIOS bootloader on these images and never attempts to chain to the EFI bootloader. Reassigning to shim; but if the laptop doesn't properly support UEFI, then you should probably make sure the firmware isn't trying to do a UEFI boot of the disk.

> Under Ubuntu 16.04, "sudo efibootmgr" reports that "EFI variables are not supported on this system."

This doesn't actually tell us anything. If Ubuntu was installed in BIOS mode and the system is booted in BIOS mode, this is the result, even if the firmware does support UEFI.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Roman (monsignor)]

I am getting exactly the same error messages on my Fujitsy Lifebook E751.

I can also confirm that it doesn't happen with the 16.04 livecd.

[Martin Mates (matesfm)]

I can confirm the same error on the Lifebook S761.
Any solution? You cannot run any Linux Live Distribution from USB.

"" Could not get fio For Li -DeviceHandle: Invalid Parameter
Failed to find fs: Invalid Parameter
Failed to load image /EFI/BOOT/grubx64.efi: INvaild parameter
start_image() returned Invalid Parameter""