Public bug reported:
Due to an EFI implementation error spreaded wide a half or full decade
ago, I need
kernel parameter "efi_no_storage_paranoia" during the (grub efi)
installation
for my Lenovo Edge E125 (ThinkPad), --- and according to internet quite
a lot of bit older, first generation of EFI motherboards and laptops are
also effected in exactly the same way.
The usual symptom is that:
warning: Cannot set EFI variable Boot000A.
warning: vars_set_variable: write() failed: No space left on
device.
error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: No such file or
directory.
Additional symptom is that after RE-FLUSHING the bios for the same
version,
the first efi install is successful, free from this error
but all the later efi installations have this error
The reason is that each of this early EFI bios impementations report a
NV-storages usage over 50%, and
kernel without "efi_no_storage_paranoia" does not want to
register the fresh install
Each of the ubuntu desktop, ubuntu server and debian install cd/usb
resource is affected with this error, and each of these
works without error, if I add the kernel parameter
"efi_no_storage_paranoia"
at boot time, using the edit function of the grub.
Suggestion:
there should be an additional grub menu item, offering this
small extra feature
Perhaps there could be an extra safety measure, that the installer
rejects to make use of this possibility, if there is no linux item among
the efi-variables what can be deleted. I.e.: this extra possibility
should be allowed only if the registration of the new item can replace
one of the previous linux items of any distribution, or at least an
Ubuntu or Debian.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Attachment added: "the error show in an already installed debian, looks same
in en already installed ubuntu"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1882939/+attachment/5382416/+files/lenovo_e125_grub.txt
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