[Bug 1082418] Re: [Fujitsu Lifebook AH532] UEFI firmware locks itself after installing Ubuntu in UEFI mode

[aimwin]

Dear All, especiall UBUNTU Ubiquity team and The Boss (Mr. Mark)

It has been long time since I report this bug.
And so many of us are effected.

Today I have made experiments and have short cl1&cl2 many times again to
help UBUNTU community.

I have reformat my SSD and install Windows 10 in UEFI mode, BIOS F12 is preserved 100% perfect.
Then I install 18.04 AND REDONE CL1&CL2 THEN 16.04 UBUNTU AND Lubuntu 18.04. 
ALL experimentS UBUNTU all versions destroyed LH532 Bios F12 functions and need to short CL1&CL2 to bring BIOS F12.
BIOS F2 is still dead.


I have AGAIN reformat my SSD and install Windows 10 in UEFI mode, BIOS F12 is preserved 100% perfect.

I INSTALLED Manjaro LINUX in the second half of the non format hard disk.
It resulted in very excellent installation, BIOS F12 is preserved 100% perfect.

THEN I proceed to install UBUNTU 18.04, it is very smart in auto mode, request me to approve 50% re partitioning only for Manjaro Linux and not Windows 10. So I did approved that.
Resulted in :
1. Windows 10 boot ok.
2. UBUNTU 18.04 jealously destroyed access to Manjaro Linux, did Mr Mark order this????
3. It destroyed BIOS F12 and I have to short CL1&CL2 to get my BIOS F12.

SO I would like to confirm here UBUNTU 18.04 UBIQUITY HAS NOT BEEN IMPROVED.
It is worse than 16.04 in detecting existing BIOS LEGACY MODE installation.
And it is still maintain the bugs in destroying host computer BIOS.

BUT MANJARO installation program and Windows 10 works fine.

Something wrong in UBUNTU INSTALLATION PROCESS since 12.04. and no one
care to change that.

I hope this existing bugs will destroy MR MARK's NEW NOTEBOOK in the future.
I really hope that.
So he will order the fixing of these bugs.

Best Regards to Everyone.

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Title:
  [Fujitsu Lifebook AH532] UEFI firmware locks itself after installing
  Ubuntu in UEFI mode

Status in efibootmgr package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 12.10
  Release:	12.10

  apt-cache policy grub-efi-amd64
  grub-efi-amd64:
    Installed: 2.00-7ubuntu11
    Candidate: 2.00-7ubuntu11

  
  Pheonix Secure Core Tiano bios version 1.09

  New laptop Fujitsu Lifebook AH532. Windows 7 preinstalled. All
  functions worked normally when running Win7. Ubuntu 12.10 installed
  using whole disk. Installation successful Ubuntu boots and runs
  normally, however all access to the bios has now been lost. Pressing
  the default key (f2) during boot up is acknowledged by bios beep, but
  ignored and Ubuntu continues booting. In addition the 'boot choices'
  menu (f12) contains nothing but Ubuntu making it impossible to boot
  from USB or CD/DVD.

  The latter (f12) problem was overcome by opening up the machine,
  removing the ram and shorting the cl1/cl2 posts with a screwdriver.
  This restores the ability to boot from USB/CD by pressing f12 but does
  not restore bios access.

  The following recovery actions have been tried.
  1) Install Boot-Repair, run repair, no change occurred. Boot repair report here:
  http://paste.ubuntu.com/1375041/

  2) Restore Windows from Clonezilla disk image (factory settings) -
  result - bios access is no longer possible from windows either, f2 now
  launches the Windows boot menu.

  3) Update all drivers using Fujitsu driver update tool from within
  windows (which included a bios update). Result - no change, no bios.

  4) Restored Ubuntu from Clonezilla disk image - no change.

  5) Added second distro to disk. Installed successfully (uefi mode as
  that is all I have) no change to bios access.

  So overall result I have lost all bios access even from a reinstalled
  Windows. I repeat that bios access was perfectly normal before
  installing Ubuntu.

  I strongly suggest you read the contents of this thread in addition to
  the information here:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2086602

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: grub-efi 2.00-7ubuntu11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Nov 23 15:50:07 2012
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-22 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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