"install alongside" fails with uefi laptop using precise
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm not sure if this is ubiquity's bailiwick or parted or grub or whatever other sub-tool holds the logic, but I recently tried to do a dual boot install on a coworker's Lenovo e320 from a 12.04 (and later 12.04.1) USB installer drive. The install proceeded fine, but it failed to do whatever EFI/UEFI magic was needed to let Ubuntu boot. No matter how many times I went through the install, it would reboot immediately into the Windows partition afterward.
I went into the BIOS and enabled "legacy" boot, and called on the Canonical Support team's assistance. They went through the install and deleted the EFI partition during a remote-managed install, and then the system booted happily into grub.
UEFI is in the wild now, and precise at least was unprepared for this.
tags: | added: precise |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
summary: |
- "install alongside" fails with uefi laptop + "install alongside" fails with uefi laptop using precise |
(Also I just want to thank moustafa from the Canonical Support team again for helping me work around this!)