[Bug 1411017] Re: No bootable image was found.

[Martin Konopka]

I have some new mostly positive findings about the boot failures
concerning my HP ZBook 15, the 1st generation (2013). Importantly, it
has the latest available BIOS installed: L70 Ver. 01.33 . (You may look
at my  bug report  #1312318 .)

1.) The issue affects also ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS.

2.) The issue, at least for the LTS version of ubuntu, can be
SUCCESSFULLY AVOIDED by setting the UEFI BIOS to the native UEFI, not to
UEFI Hybrid mode. At the same time I turned on the Secure Boot (it was
off during my previous attempts). So, my installation of ubuntu 14.04.3
with these two settings was successful, i.e. I was able to boot the
installed system without any hassle.

I did not check if both of these two settings (Native UEFI and Secure
Boot) were necessary. I just used both of them and it worked. My guess
is that ubuntu 15.10 would behave in the same way. So I think that  THE
BUG COULD BE CLOSED.

3.) Before the ubuntu 14.04.3 installation I tried also several installations of Linux Mint 17.2 .
   (a) This system can boot also in Legacy BIOS mode. I successfully installed the system in this mode. Unfortunately, the legacy BIOS still has bugs which prevent the control over the display brightness (see my  bug report  #1312318 .)
   (b) I tried also the installation with the Hybrid UEFI (and Secure Boot Off). The result was the same as with ubuntu 14.04.3 and also 15.10. (The systems could not boot in a usual way,  just through the annoying Esc, F9, etc sequence.)

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Title:
  No bootable image was found.

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Just bought a new laptop (HP ZBook 14) with Windows pre-installed with
  UEFI. I wanted to remove Windows and clean install Xubuntu,
  unfortunately I get the following error message after the
  installation: "No bootable image was found." My ZBook 14 has a mSATA
  SSD 128GB and a HDD 500GB. I tried to switch the boot order in UEFI
  and I even tried to install Xubuntu without my HDD. Unfortunately
  nothing solved the problem. There is one thing to note though, I can
  select ubuntu in the boot options and Xubuntu will boot correctly. So
  if I am not accessing the boot options, I will get the error message
  "No bootable image was found."

  JordanU tried to help me and suggested me to use bootinfoscript
  (http://pastebin.com/XeWxJkDs). I also did the following in terminal
  "sudo efibootmgr" (http://pastebin.com/AzT24J5X).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: grub-efi (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-generic 3.13.11-ckt12
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Jan 15 00:01:03 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-14 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140723)
  SourcePackage: grub2
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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