Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Le 01/04/2023 at 00:41, Dima Kogan wrote: I got it running by using a friend's usb installer. HIS usb disk was a valid UEFI boot disk, so I could boot in UEFI mode, and do the normal install, which completed successfully. How was this "usb installer" created ? cp

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-31 Thread Dima Kogan
Hi all. Thanks for the replies. I was just able to get it installed. And here are some notes about what happened, and about how we can do better. I got it running by using a friend's usb installer. HIS usb disk was a valid UEFI boot disk, so I could boot in UEFI mode, and do the normal install,

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 09:12:05AM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: >Pascal Hambourg writes: > >> On 30/03/2023 at 01:21, Dima Kogan wrote: >>> I had to turn off >>> secure-boot and UEFI in the BIOS. >> >> Why ? What happens if UEFI boot is enabled ? > >If UEFI was enabled, the USB device isn't seen by

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-30 Thread Dima Kogan
Pascal Hambourg writes: > On 30/03/2023 at 01:21, Dima Kogan wrote: >> I had to turn off >> secure-boot and UEFI in the BIOS. > > Why ? What happens if UEFI boot is enabled ? If UEFI was enabled, the USB device isn't seen by the machine in its list of valid boot devices > How did you prepare

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, On 30/03/2023 at 01:21, Dima Kogan wrote: I'm installing from a USB drive. To make this work, I had to turn off secure-boot and UEFI in the BIOS. Why ? What happens if UEFI boot is enabled ? How did you prepare the USB drive ? What installation image did you use (full file name and

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-29 Thread Dima Kogan
Hi. Thank you both for replying. Tim Bell writes: > Just to confirm - you were not able to configure the USB Drive for EFI > boot? Correct. For whatever reason this wasn't possible in this BIOS, at least not in any way I could figure out. Possibly I created the install media incorrectly? I

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-29 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Control: severity -1 normal Hi Dima, Dima Kogan (2023-03-29): > Hi. I just installed a bookworm candidate. This worked OK through > partitioning and reboot, but I cannot boot into the system. For the avoidance of doubt: which one? Alpha 1 or Alpha 2. Also, which image did you use? > This is

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-29 Thread Tim Bell
On 3/29/2023 6:21 PM, Dima Kogan wrote: Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Hi. I just installed a bookworm candidate. This worked OK through partitioning and reboot, but I cannot boot into the system. This is an amd64 recent-ish laptop. The disk is a PCIe SSD, not SATA. I'm

Bug#1033678: installation-reports: Unbootable install: MBR partition unusable with UEFI

2023-03-29 Thread Dima Kogan
Package: installation-reports Severity: grave Hi. I just installed a bookworm candidate. This worked OK through partitioning and reboot, but I cannot boot into the system. This is an amd64 recent-ish laptop. The disk is a PCIe SSD, not SATA. I'm installing from a USB drive. To make this work, I