[Bug 1297069] Re: During the installation under UEFI mode, "Could not open \EFI\BOOT\fallback.efi: 14" shows after passed the BIOS phase.

Steve Langasek steve.langasek at canonical.com
Wed May 6 15:05:10 UTC 2015


** Changed in: shim (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: shim (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: shim (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu-tl)

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Title:
  During the installation under UEFI mode, "Could not open
  \EFI\BOOT\fallback.efi: 14" shows after passed the BIOS phase.

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  Fix Released
Status in OEM Priority Project trusty series:
  New
Status in shim package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in shim source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  During the installation under UEFI mode, "Could not open
  \EFI\BOOT\fallback.efi: 14" shows after passed the BIOS phase.

  I checked the source code and noticed that the messages are printed in
  function should_use_fallback(). If this function is just a detector
  then how about simply remove the output from this function to a
  provide a better user experience?

  Please refer to the attached patch.

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