Public bug reported:
Bugs #1668148 and #1766945 changed the installation process to install
grub-efi instead of grub-pc when the installer is booted in EFI mode but
the existing OS on the disk is in bios mode. Currently, this renders
the existing Windows or FreeDOS install unbootable. Windows installs at
least may be able to be salvaged by patching os-prober to generate a
grub.cfg that still has the windows bios mode chainloader command when
interpreted by grub-pc ( if the user tells their firmware to boot in
legacy mode ), or to chainload the windows EFI boot loader when booting
grub-efi. Normally os-prober looks for the windows bootmgr in the ESP,
but in the case of a bios mode install, a copy can also be found in the
windows\boot directory and at least in theory should be loadable to boot
Windows even though it was originally installed in bios mode.
As things currently stand, this will be a major breakage for users in
18.10 and 18.04.1, so unless the changes to os-prober can be made in
time, the other two changes should be reverted and simply stick with
grub-pc in the case where the existing OS is in bios mode.
** Affects: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Status: Triaged
** Affects: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Status: Triaged
** Affects: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Status: Triaged
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical
Status: Triaged
** Also affects: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04.1
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04.1
** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04.1
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-18.04.1
** Changed in: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: os-prober (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
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Title:
Existing bios mode Windows install left unbootable after installing in
EFI mode
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