[Bug 1040557] Re: UEFI boot live-usb bricks SAMSUNG 530U3C, np700z5c laptop

[Kate Stewart]

>From discussions with Michael earlier:  shim  task was opened to make
sure bug was on release team radar, and hopes that either shim or grub
may be able to participate in detection/mitigation.   Issue some sort of
"WARNING: don't do this, Ubuntu can't run on this firmware" if specific
firmware identifier is detected,  before UEFI progresses?     If this is
not the case,  task should be marked as invalid.

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Title:
  UEFI boot live-usb bricks SAMSUNG 530U3C,np700z5c laptop

Status in Ubuntu CD image build software:
  Confirmed
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu quantal series:
  Triaged
Status in “shim” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “shim” source package in Quantal:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I cannot provide detailed log massages because laptop is bricked right
  now.

  If you have courage to try it select UEFI boot from bios and than try
  to boot laptop using liveusb (made form Precise Pangolin 12.04.1
  amd64).

  Laptop hangs up in black screen. If you force power-off, after it,
  laptop wont start. I mean it not event start bios, just black screen
  no sounds nothing.

  I filing this report, because i already bricked second laptop. At
  first i thought it was unrelated issue and laptop was fixed by
  warranty service (replaced motherboard), but after second time i quite
  sure.

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