Comment 3 for bug 1851955

Hi Jean-Baptiste and Steve

I admit I am baffled but I appreciate your replies. I had thought it might
be caused by a small hard drive error but that's just a guess.
Interestingly Mint 18 installs OK Mint 12.2 doesn't and any Ubuntu version
does not, although these used to.

More curious, I made a Zorin OS boot USB on another notebook and ran this
after the grub installer failed. This had a "repair boot" section so I ran
this and now Ubuntu 19.10 boots on its own. Very odd.

I checked Bios and it has EFI also I see an EFI partition from Ubuntu using
disks. I like Linux but am just a novice but overall this behaviour just
seems weird.

Anyway I'll report back later if this approach turns out to be stable, for
whatever reason.

Also, is there any way you could remotely inspect and modify this notebook,
even just as an experiment?

Ian

On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 4:35 PM Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
wrote:

> The error in your logs is:
>
> Nov 9 19:25:47 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-install: warning: Cannot set EFI
> variable Boot0000.
> Nov 9 19:25:47 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-install: warning:
> efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 7 failed: Invalid argument.
> Nov 9 19:25:47 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-install: warning:
> _efi_set_variable_mode: ops->set_variable() failed: Invalid argument.
> Nov 9 19:25:47 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-install: error: failed to register
> the EFI boot entry: Invalid argument.
>
> Do you know of a reason that Ubuntu would be unable to write to these
> firmware variables, such as a BIOS security setting?
>
> ** Changed in: shim-signed (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> Title:
> ubuntu 19.10 boot installer failed
>
> Status in shim-signed package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Installed on an ENVY notebook, installation afiled at the end with no
> bootloader message
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
> Package: ubiquity 19.10.21
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
> Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
> ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperVersion: 1.427
> Date: Sun Nov 10 08:32:41 2019
> InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed initrd=/casper/initrd
> quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
> SourcePackage: ubiquity
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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