[Bug 1297069] Re: During the installation under UEFI mode, "Could not open \EFI\BOOT\fallback.efi: 14" shows after passed the BIOS phase.

Yu Ning ning.yu at canonical.com
Thu Apr 10 06:09:33 UTC 2014


Hi Steve Langasek, thank you, just want to double confirm one thing, I
checked lp:ubuntu/shim, the last commit is:

79. By Steve Langasek on 2013-09-27
Install fallback.efi.signed as well, to lay the groundwork for fallback
handling (wanted when we have to move a drive between machines, or when

And we still can find those Print() in the source code.

Could you give me more hints how is this issue get fixed? Thanks.

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Title:
  During the installation under UEFI mode, "Could not open
  \EFI\BOOT\fallback.efi: 14" shows after passed the BIOS phase.

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in “shim” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  During the installation under UEFI mode, "Could not open
  \EFI\BOOT\fallback.efi: 14" shows after passed the BIOS phase.

  I checked the source code and noticed that the messages are printed in
  function should_use_fallback(). If this function is just a detector
  then how about simply remove the output from this function to a
  provide a better user experience?

  Please refer to the attached patch.

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