Public bug reported: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on Acer 5250 laptop.
Installed as a single operating system and told partition utility (Install Ubuntu) to claim entire hard drive on install. Install went well, but GruB was acting funny, loading the Grub Menu with a 30 Second Counter sometimes, then other times it would boot as normal. Decided to run Boot Repair and get report on drive boot. The program ran, but never reported what errors it found. It did find them, and prepared a set of reports, one upon install, the other after first run. The install utility partitioned the drive in three: 1 vfat(32), 2 extended, 5 ext4. Using the vfat(32) as the boot sector, it wrote all the bootfiles and GruB to 1. It tried to use esp and efi bootfiles, but this device is a old style mbr boot BIOS. So Grub went into fallback mode. Boot repair did repair the issue, by reinstalling GruB and kernel to partition 3, setting the boot loader mode to mbr, and removing the efi loader and all boot related files from partition 1. It looks like from the error logs in Boot Repair, that the Ubuntu Installer "best guess" from the previous setup (before install had Win10 and Ubuntu Mate Dual-Boot) was that Win10 needed that vfat(32) partition for installing Win10 AFTER Ubuntu and made a place for the win10 bootfiles, then added Ubuntu boot and kernel to the vfat(32) partition. However, during the install, what ever probe system was installed in kernel or grub incorrectly setup Ubuntu to use the efi bootfiles in a mbr environment. If you need the boot repair logs I can send them, but need to know what to scrub from them before sending or adding here. Not a programmer, just advanced user. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1876733 Title: GruB boot on full Ubuntu 20.04 LTS install tries to use efi on mbr partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1876733/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs