UEFI Firmware Support
Support booting on systems using UEFI firmware.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Duncan McGreggor
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Colin Watson
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Colin Watson
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for maverick
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
-
ubuntu-10.10-beta
- Started by
- Colin Watson
- Completed by
- Colin Watson
Related branches
Related bugs
| Bug #612432: UEFI boot needs Experimental branch of Grub | Expired |
| Bug #677260: CD images aren't able to boot off USB sticks in uEFI mode | Fix Released |
Whiteboard
Work items for maverick-alpha-2:
Investigate support for EFI graphics in GRUB (seems to basically work, at least under OVMF): DONE
Create new i386/efi and amd64/efi subarchitectures in d-i: DONE
Default */efi subarchitectures to GPT: DONE
Switch on EFI System Partition handling for */efi subarchitectures: DONE
Instruct efibootmgr to make Ubuntu the default OS: DONE
Work items for maverick-alpha-3:
Test viability of multi-catalog images: DONE
Investigate whether GRUB bit length needs to match firmware, and adjust grub-installer as necessary: DONE
[colin-king] Investigate situation with Intel graphics drivers on EFI: DONE
Work items for ubuntu-10.10-beta:
Make d-i mini.iso images multi-catalog: DONE
Make primary CD images multi-catalog: DONE
