"install alongside" fails with uefi laptop using precise

[Nick Moffitt]

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.

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

(Also I just want to thank moustafa from the Canonical Support team again for helping me work around this!)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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