Is this bug still considered important (amongst the 3500 other bugs in the list)?
I just encountered a slightly different flavour of this one, and can provide some input before I try vikings777's fix. I've been running pre-installed Windows 7 on a Fujitsu AH532 since 2012. Two weeks back, I installed a Live-USB with Ubuntu 14.04. All working well, but I struggled getting it persistent, so I decided to do a full Ubuntu installation to another USB-drive. Leaving my Windows hard drive untouched. 1) I entered my "BIOS" to change boot order, and booting from my Ubuntu Live-USB. 2) I followed a installation guide (don't remember now which one on the top of my head), and partitioned my second USB-drive with a BIOS boot partition, an UEFI partition, a main partition and a swap partition. 3) I installed Ubuntu on a second USB-drive. Leaving my Windows hard- drive "intact" (???) Now, I can only boot my machine by inserting my second full- installation-USB-drive. I cannot boot Windows, and I cannot boot from my LiveUSB. If I boot without inserting my full-installation-USB-drive, I get the boot screen telling me I can press F2 or F12, none which work, as described by others before me, apart from making the correct beep. Then I enter the "Boot menu" (incl "Application menu"). I even physically removed my Windows hard drive, but the same thing happens. If anyone has time and interest to look at this, now a tad old issue, let me know what sort of debug reports you want, and I'll try to help. Cheers, Vegard -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1082418 Title: [Fujitsu Lifebook AH532] Ubuntu UEFI install locks out UEFI firmware (~bios) access Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.10 Release: 12.10 apt-cache policy grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64: Installed: 2.00-7ubuntu11 Candidate: 2.00-7ubuntu11 Pheonix Secure Core Tiano bios version 1.09 New laptop Fujitsu Lifebook AH532. Windows 7 preinstalled. All functions worked normally when running Win7. Ubuntu 12.10 installed using whole disk. Installation successful Ubuntu boots and runs normally, however all access to the bios has now been lost. Pressing the default key (f2) during boot up is acknowledged by bios beep, but ignored and Ubuntu continues booting. In addition the 'boot choices' menu (f12) contains nothing but Ubuntu making it impossible to boot from USB or CD/DVD. The latter (f12) problem was overcome by opening up the machine, removing the ram and shorting the cl1/cl2 posts with a screwdriver. This restores the ability to boot from USB/CD by pressing f12 but does not restore bios access. The following recovery actions have been tried. 1) Install Boot-Repair, run repair, no change occurred. Boot repair report here: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1375041/ 2) Restore Windows from Clonezilla disk image (factory settings) - result - bios access is no longer possible from windows either, f2 now launches the Windows boot menu. 3) Update all drivers using Fujitsu driver update tool from within windows (which included a bios update). Result - no change, no bios. 4) Restored Ubuntu from Clonezilla disk image - no change. 5) Added second distro to disk. Installed successfully (uefi mode as that is all I have) no change to bios access. So overall result I have lost all bios access even from a reinstalled Windows. I repeat that bios access was perfectly normal before installing Ubuntu. I strongly suggest you read the contents of this thread in addition to the information here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2086602 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: grub-efi 2.00-7ubuntu11 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Nov 23 15:50:07 2012 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-22 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: grub2 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1082418/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
