16.04 problems - install, inactive/suspend, hard disk

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:30:29 -0700
rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:

> Hello Petter,
> 
> Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 7:25:26 AM, Petter wrote:
> > +1. And huzzah for efibootmgr, it is invaluable in figuring out (and
> > fixing) UEFI boot problems.  
> 
> That would have been VERY nice to know about at the time. :-))

Sorry, I wasn't really following lists for a while due to other
priorities. Odd it didn't come up in your searches, though, it's _the_
tool for UEFI issues on Linux.

Also I recommend the Arch wiki article on UEFI:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface

> > No, it won't. There might indeed be an installer bug that prevents
> > you from using the ESP on any drive but sda,  
> 
> I learned this critical piece of information from a couple of
> discussions on the net. The consensus in these discussions was that it
> was an installer bug.

I'm not sure I've ever tried this, so I can't say.

> > but my ESP is on sdc and my system still boots.  
> 
> How did you get it there? By using efibootmgr?

I had an installation on sda that I wanted to move to sdc. Created
ESP, copied everything over, updated grub and set up a firmware entry
with efibootmgr. Works just fine.

> > The _installer_ might fail, but if it does that is a bug and should
> > be fixed.  
> 
> I don't know how to report the bug but it probably should be
> reported. 

If I can find the time I'll test this and report a bug if there is one.

Petter

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