Bug#708430: Bug#767037: installation-reports: jessie on HP EliteBook 820

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:17:18AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 23:16:24 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>
>> Hi Claire!
>> 
>> Claire David <claire.david at orkys.net> (2014-10-27):
>> > Initial boot:           [O]
>> > Detect network card:    [O]
>> > Configure network:      [O]
>> > Detect CD:              [O]
>> > Load installer modules: [O]
>> > Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
>> > User/password setup:    [O]
>> > Detect hard drives:     [O]
>> > Partition hard drives:  [O]
>> > Install base system:    [O]
>> > Install tasks:          [O]
>> > Install boot loader:    [E]
>> > Overall install:        [ ]
>> > 
>> > Comments/Problems:
>> > 
>> > On reboot the system cannot find grub. After reinstalling the boot
>> > loader using the rescue mode of the installer, it is possible to
>> > manually select grubx64.efi from the firmware but it still does not boot
>> > on its own.
>> 
>> Thanks for the report; Steve, can you please have a look at this EFI thingy?
>> 
>Steve suggested copying grubx64.efi to /boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi,
>which worked.  Not exactly ideal, but better than having to navigate
>through the ESP at each boot.

ACK. We're seeing this in a few other bug reports,
e.g. #708430. #744462 is a wishlist bug in d-i to ask for exactly this
as a feature...

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