[Bug 1962470] Re: Jammy Live installer not producing booting EFI hard drive installations

[Michael Lueck]

Still present in Xubuntu 20220402 Daily jammy-
desktop-2022-04-02-amd64.iso

This morning I pulled down the daily build, burned it to a DVD.

I began by wiping the previous partitions, allowed the installer to guide me through creating:
500 MB EFI partition
The rest XFS mounted /

No complaints from the installer.

Resulted in a non booting hard drive. :-(

Started over, wiped the disk, manually crated a msdos partition with
Gparted, then a single xfs partition. Installation warned about not
being able to boot the system... however this legacy way the hard drive
boots perfectly.

Major new defect with Xubuntu 22.04 that is not present in Xubuntu
20.04. I partition with gpt partition table, EFI / XFS as listed above
with perfect success. Something odd that 22.04 cannot handle a gpt
partition table.

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Title:
  Jammy Live installer not producing booting EFI hard drive
  installations

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Starting up this weekend's Live DVD of Xubuntu, I am unable to produce
  a system that will boot EFI mode from the hard disk.

  The BIOS is configured to EFI boot mode for the disks.

  This last attempt, I manually wiped the partitions from the drive
  before launching the installer from the LiveDVD.

  Check the partition table
  sudo wipefs /dev/sda

  Wipe the gpd partition table
  sudo wipefs -a -t gpt -f /dev/sda

  Double check that the wipe was successful with the first command, came
  back empty / blank.

  Next started the Xubuntu installer from the desktop icon.

  Chose manual partitioning, created the following
  sda1 500M Primary EFI Boot
  sda2 remainder Primary xfs /

  Once the installation got done, I opened Gparted to confirm the partitions.
  The EFI partition was mounted to /target/boot/efi
  The XFS partition was mounted to /target/

  The EFI partition had boot, esp flags on it.

  I restarted the system, shuts down, exhibits the usual with Jammy
  defect 1962466, I push a key to restart, system goes through BIOS
  screens, then lands at a black screen with blinking cursor in the top
  left corner.

  Getting systems to boot from the hard drive is very frustrating in the
  era of EFI boot. :-(

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