[Bug 1407520] Re: boot from first hard disk fails to find disks

[Walter Lapchynski]

Wherein cyphermox implicates himself in resolving this:
https://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2018/08/22/%23ubuntu-release.html#t19:39

** Changed in: syslinux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Triaged

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

** Description changed:

- Boot a lubuntu amd64-desktop iso by selecting it in the boot order menu
- which is f11 on my motherboard and and at the first menu select English
- for the language and then at that menu try to boot from the first hard
- disk at the try lubuntu without installing , install lubuntu... menu .
- It will say boot failed press any key to continue and then the system
- will reboot and boot up normally but will say the boot has failed. I am
- trying to chainload grub2 when booting from first hard disk.
+ 1. Ensure that there is an installed OS
+ 2. Boot to live system on BIOS
+ 3. Select language
+ 4. select boot from first hard drive
  
+ EXPECTED RESULT
+ The system boots normally from the first hard drive.
  
- Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
- Release:	15.04
+ ACTUAL RESULT
+ The system does not boot, but instead prints "Boot failed: press a key to retry..."
  
- syslinux:
-   Installed: 3:6.03~pre18+dfsg-1ubuntu1
-   Candidate: 3:6.03~pre18+dfsg-1ubuntu1
-   Version table:
-  *** 3:6.03~pre18+dfsg-1ubuntu1 0
-         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
-         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
- https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5cd993b01c8b6dae24ca is the iso tracker hardware profile. 
+ AFFECTED VERSIONS
+ Xenial to Cosmic (perhaps even earlier)
  
- I expected the boot to chainload the first disk in my case my crucial
- mx100 ssd which is the first device in boot order.
- 
- Instead my uefi system finds no bootable system and restarts. I also get
- the same result in some virtual machines using kvm.
- 
- ProblemType: Bug
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
- Package: syslinux 3:6.03~pre18+dfsg-1ubuntu1
- ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
- Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
- ApportVersion: 2.15.1-0ubuntu1
- Architecture: amd64
- CasperVersion: 1.347
- CurrentDesktop: LXDE
- Date: Sun Jan  4 22:50:03 2015
- Dependencies:
-  gcc-4.9-base 4.9.2-10ubuntu1
-  libc6 2.19-13ubuntu3
-  libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10ubuntu1
-  mtools 4.0.18-2
-  multiarch-support 2.19-13ubuntu3
- LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150104)
- ProcEnviron:
-  TERM=xterm
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
- SourcePackage: syslinux
- UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
+ NOTES
+ EFI systems use GRUB2 instead of isolinux and they don't even have the option to boot to the first hard disk, itself seeming like a bit of a bug.

** Changed in: syslinux (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)

** Summary changed:

- boot from first hard disk fails to find disks
+ boot from first hard disk fails

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Title:
  boot from first hard disk fails

Status in syslinux package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1. Ensure that there is an installed OS
  2. Boot to live system on BIOS
  3. Select language
  4. select boot from first hard drive

  EXPECTED RESULT
  The system boots normally from the first hard drive.

  ACTUAL RESULT
  The system does not boot, but instead prints "Boot failed: press a key to retry..."

  AFFECTED VERSIONS
  Xenial to Cosmic (perhaps even earlier)

  NOTES
  EFI systems use GRUB2 instead of isolinux and they don't even have the option to boot to the first hard disk, itself seeming like a bit of a bug.

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