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, wh

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 devic

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 dow

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