boot from first hard disk fails

Bug #1743031 reported by Joshua Powers
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1407520: boot from first hard disk fails. Edit Remove
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
syslinux (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

Trying to use the option "boot from first hard drive" fails.

Tested with: Bionic daily amd64 server ISO dated 20180103

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install ubuntu server
2. Do the post-install reboot
3. Shutdown the system
4. Mount ISO + power on
5. select boot from first hard drive

Expected Result:
The system should boot normally from the first hard drive

Actual Result:
The system prints "Boot failed: press a key to retry..."

Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Are you able to boot from the hard drive without first booting from the cd? Are you testing this on real hardware, or a virtual machine?

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

This is confirmed in Bionic desktop too.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Phillip Susi (psusi)
affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) → syslinux (Ubuntu)
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