19.04 Live

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 1 May 2019 17:51:26 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 05:21:57PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> Does it come up with a page immediately on boot with an icon of a
>> keyboard and a little man?  
>
>Note that you only get that when booting using BIOS mode, not UEFI.

A few days ago, after an upgrade of Ubuntu 16.04 I run into strange UEFI
issues. My "BIOS" settings were "UEFI and legacy" for a long time,
while actually I had no UEFI whatsoever install on my machine. This
worked for a very long time without any issue. After that Ubuntu upgrade
my Arch Linux syslinux bootloader menu didn't appear anymore and I also
couldn't boot Ubuntu Live-DVDs that worked before anymore. First I just
removed anything UEFI related from the boot order BIOS settings, which
worked temporarily, but not everlasting. After changing the BIOS
setting from "UEFI and legacy" to "legacy" only, everything is ok again.

I would be a Christ I would recommend to stone the Ubuntu maintainers
who introduce UEFI to death, since it's good for absolutely nothing, but
obviously could cause trouble from one day to another. Fortunately I'm
not a Christ.

Btw. I didn't test an Ubuntu 19.04 live DVD, but an Ubuntu-Budgie 19.04
Live-DVD. The graphic with "an icon of a keyboard and a little man"
was broken, not the icon itself, but the upper 1/3 of the background
looked strange. However, it bootet automagically into a live session. I
dislike Budgie, but it run 100% stable.