[Bug 1962470] Re: Jammy Live installer not producing booting gpt partition table / EFI partition hard drive installations
Michael Lueck
1962470 at bugs.launchpad.net
Sun Apr 3 22:45:20 UTC 2022
With the same Xubuntu 20220402 Daily jammy-desktop-2022-04-02-amd64.iso
I thought to do an automatic partitioning installation. I knew I would
not end up with a XFS formatted root partition, but a booting system
with gpt partition table would be better than a non-booting system.
The installer created the following partitions:
sda1 1MB BIOS BOOT
sda2 500MB EFI System
sda3 1TB / ext4
So, an additional partition my working Xubuntu 20.04.2 system did not
require... the 1MB BIOS BOOT partition. I had high hopes... Nope! Still
will not boot from the HDD. I mentioned in my failed installation test
results I would update this same defect case with the results of the
failed auto partition installation attempt.
The only way I can make Xubuntu 22.04 boot on this system is to manually
bring up Gparted, create a blank MSDOS partition table, and then a
single 1TB / xfs partition... it boots just fine with that legacy
configuration... which I do not install as the BIOS is new enough to
support UEFI Smart Boot... which I have that disabled.
Test system is based on a Intel DG33BU motherboard and Intel Core 2 Duo
E8500 CPU
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Title:
Jammy Live installer not producing booting gpt partition table / EFI
partition 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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