Thank you, Rod!
Booted to Xubuntu 22.04 LiveDVD
BIOS has UEFI disabled
xubuntu@xubuntu:/sys/firmware$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Apr 23 12:32 .
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Apr 23 12:32 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 0 Apr 23 12:33 acpi
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Apr 23 12:33 dmi
I've tried to reproduce this problem in a VirtualBox VM, with no
succcess. My suspicion is that there's been a regression somewhere (most
likely in GRUB 2 or the Linux kernel) that's causing partial
incompatibility with the older UEFI version used on your motherboard,
Michael. I say "partial
Perhaps has the EFI / UEFI BIOS compatibility changed over time?
Finally boot success using a ThinkPad T540p model 20BE-CT01WW and the
Xubuntu 20220402 Daily jammy-desktop-2022-04-02-amd64.iso
Manual partitions as follows:
sda1 1MB BIOS BOOT
sda2 500MB EFI System
sda3 the rest / xfs
So
With the same Xubuntu 20220402 Daily jammy-desktop-2022-04-02-amd64.iso
I thought to do an automatic partitioning installation. I knew I would
not end up with a XFS formatted root partition, but a booting system
with gpt partition table would be better than a non-booting system.
The installer
** Summary changed:
- Jammy Live installer not producing booting EFI hard drive installations
+ Jammy Live installer not producing booting gpt partition table / EFI
partition hard drive installations
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