[Bug 1899308] Re: failure to boot groovy daily (again)

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

i now am boss of my mainboard ASUS ProWS C246-ACE EFI firmware 1401,
at least as long i do not want to disable Secure Boot.
The hardware provider was of not of help with USB sticks, but remembers
to have inserted Debian 10.4.0 netinst on CD-RW when SSD and HDD were
still without bootable system.

The EFI confused me old BIOS owner by not attributing external devices
a high boot priority. I have to go into the EFI setup and move the
offered drive (USB stick or CD reader) to the top of the list.
Then it boots.

This setting gets forgotten as soon as i boot again.

Next stumblestone was that my large 128 GB stick causes a long delay
with booting, is then not presented as boot device, and does not show
up in a booted Debian 10, if i plug it into a blue USB socket.
In a black socket it works for Linux and is recognized by EFI after i
powered down the machine after unplugging from blue and plugging into
black.
(An old 2 GB stick with Debian 10.4.0 netinst on it works at blue USB
sockets.)

I tested from USB stick successfully up to the GRUB menu:

  groovy-desktop-amd64.iso  20201007.1   MBR-only

  groovy-desktop-amd64.iso  20201010     GPT without boot flag

  groovy-desktop-amd64.iso  20201015     GPT with boot flag

The 20201010 version was also tested from DVD+RW. (There is no difference
between the three ISO as far as the El Torito catalog is concerned.)

Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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Title:
  failure to boot groovy daily  (again)

Status in Ubuntu CD Images:
  Fix Released
Status in cd-boot-images-amd64 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This is either a duplicate or return of
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1883040
  - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1886148

  Most probably "groovy daily won't boot anymore on some older BIOS
  boxes" or the 1883040 bug, as it's impacting only my older slow boxes
  (but it's also different).

  thumb-drive has been successfully used in QA live & install tests,
  however it won't boot on

  hp dc7700 (c2d-e6320, 5gb, nvidia quadro nvs 290)
  hp dc7900 (c2d-e8400, 4gb, intel 4 series integrated i915)

  The last timing issue also impacted d755-5 (older dell optiplex 755)
  when dc7700 was impacted, but that booted successfully this ISO.

  I see thumb-drive flash as it tries to boot, eventually it stops
  flashing, but no boot. At least 6 attempts made to boot, thumb-drive
  being tested on another 2x d755 boxes..

  (ISO written by mkusb/dus & gnome-disks [#11] is identical)

  ** Expected result

  It boots & is usable

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