[Bug 1962470] Re: Jammy Live installer not producing booting EFI hard drive installations

[Michael Lueck]

Greetings Steve,

I prefer XFS filesystem. As much as I understand, the only way to get
Ubuntu / Xubuntu to use XFS is to do manual partitioning.

With legacy partitioning, then lately (past several versions) Ubuntu has
been able to boot directly from XFS. Back around 2004/5 range, it was
required to have at least a small ext2 or ext3 (later) /boot partition,
and the rest could be XFS for the root partition.

Now with EFI systems, I have understood that it is back to having at
least two partitions... an EFI partition first, which then following may
be the main XFS partition.

As much as I have understood, this above is the state of Linux booting
from XFS currently.

As far as where I first booked this bug against... I had forgotten that
ubiquity was actually the package name for the installer. Please accept
my apologies.

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Title:
  Jammy Live installer not producing booting EFI 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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