Actually, this crap happened me many times and I was able to solve after
burning a mobo just to figure out what was happening. PLEASE READ
EVERYTHING BEFORE DOING ANYTHING!
When the system has not grub installed everything is ok, but after the install
efi is destroyed. The only way to solve it is to jumper the two pins under the
ram, it will reset cmos and efi. Then you have to create a freedos bootable usb
stick with the bios updater on it. Pay attention that 1.x can't be updated to
2.x, so check twice for the exact bios version.
Then flash the bios.
Now reboot the computer. It will automatically check for any bootx64.efi in
Boot folder in the efi partition. If you have something there, it will boot it.
In the case you want to reinstall grub you can, but in order to AVOID TO REPEAT
EVERYTHING just remove the efibootmgr and efivars packages, without them
grub-install won't touch the efi entries.
If you have any questions please ask, maybe i have some news since I am
still trying to add a standard entry as i used to have.
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Title:
[Fujitsu Lifebook AH532] UEFI firmware locks itself after installing
Ubuntu in UEFI mode
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
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)
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