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  1. Bug #1962470
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1962470

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Michael Lueck (mlueck) wrote :

Thank you, Rod!

Booted to Xubuntu 22.04 LiveDVD
BIOS has UEFI disabled

xubuntu@xubuntu:/sys/firmware$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Apr 23 12:32 .
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Apr 23 12:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Apr 23 12:33 acpi
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Apr 23 12:33 dmi
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 0 Apr 23 12:58 memmap
xubuntu@xubuntu:/sys/firmware$ sudo dmesg | grep -i EFI
[ 0.078686] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645519600211568 ns
[ 1.477833] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3166.306 MHz
[ 80.771346] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
xubuntu@xubuntu:/sys/firmware$

Booted to Xubuntu 22.04 LiveDVD
BIOS has UEFI enabled

xubuntu@xubuntu:/sys/firmware$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Apr 23 13:07 .
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Apr 23 13:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Apr 23 13:08 acpi
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Apr 23 13:08 dmi
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 0 Apr 23 13:22 memmap
xubuntu@xubuntu:/sys/firmware$ sudo dmesg | grep -i EFI
[ 0.079762] clocksource: refined-jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645519600211568 ns
[ 1.522877] tsc: Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 3166.310 MHz
[ 78.934879] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
xubuntu@xubuntu:/sys/firmware$

Seems Xubuntu 22.04 release just cannot detect EFI / UEFI support within the BIOS.

The Ubuntu / Xubuntu ISO DVD's seem to be intelligent enough to boot if the BIOS has only legacy support or new EFI / UEFI support. Perhaps that is the area of Ubuntu that has the issue... that the EFI / UEFI detector fails to detect, so boots in legacy support mode?

For this system, manually partitioning off the Live DVD with Gparted, msdos partition table, one large xfs partition mounted as root.