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Force UEFI Installation bug #91

Closed goldstar611 closed 6 years ago

goldstar611 commented 6 years ago

This bug report affects both OEM installs and normal installs.

How to reproduce:

  1. Boot a UEFI-enabled (WITH SECURE BOOT ENABLED) computer with a live usb
  2. At the screen that asks if you want to perform "Erase disk and install" or "..." or "Something else" and you choose something else
  3. Remove all partitions from target disk (/dev/sda)
  4. Add a new partition that doesn't completely fill the disk (Filesystem = ext4 and Mountpoint = /)
  5. Add a new partition to fill the rest of disk (Filesystem = swaparea)
  6. Click Install Now
  7. Notice that the dialog box advances to the "Where are you?" screen
  8. Notice the modal dialog "Force UEFI installation?" that cannot be closed via X button, Continue button nor Go Back button.

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goldstar611 commented 6 years ago

Actually, secure boot status does not matter. If you wait too long on the modal dialog, the "Where are you?" screen appears.

goldstar611 commented 6 years ago

This is a regression. While Linux Mint 18.3 behaves the same way (Modal dialog pops up over the "Where are you?" screen it allows you to continue and go back.

goldstar611 commented 6 years ago

What's even more bizarre is after installing Linux Mint 18.3 using the steps above, installing 19.0 no longer exhibits this behavior. There must be something related to the partition finding tools. The computer is a Dell laptop, Inspiron 3473 (The newest 3000 series with an SSD and no BIOS support). Here is the partition information from clonezilla

/dev/sda1: LABEL="ESP" UUID="40D5-93CC" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="89618aad-7262-46c0-aec6-5927006c91f9"
/dev/sda2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="068eb0b7-4666-490e-a70d-7d077b767d6b"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="OS" UUID="6C402EF7402EC822" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="baa6263a-9602-4efd-8131-407fc2a8594d"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="WINRETOOLS" UUID="D44878D14878B3B8" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="ddf4d39b-07c4-4c3c-9ac9-cb395520933b"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="2018-06-26-15-38-36-00" LABEL="Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon 64-bit" TYPE="iso9660" PTUUID="3a7dc2fc" PTTYPE="dos" PARTUUID="3a7dc2fc-01"
/dev/sdb2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="044E-AC17" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="3a7dc2fc-02"
kernc commented 6 years ago

Judging by the timezone selection dialog from the attached screenshot, this is not from LMDE's live-installer, but from a ubiquity-derived installer, i.e. here: https://github.com/linuxmint/ubiquity or here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity.

goldstar611 commented 6 years ago

You are correct. There are many many instances of ubiquity in the logs. Also I found this forum post in the Newbie Section regarding an UEFI installation issue so I'm going to close this issue since I got LM19 installed finally.