Pop!_OS expects vmlinuz on the iso to have the *.efi extension.
Bug #1898749 reported by
Cubic PPA
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Cubic |
Fix Released
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High
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Cubic PPA | ||
Bug Description
During installation, Pop!_OS tries to create a recovery partition and copy the initrd and vmlinuz files to the new partition. The installer Pop!_OS installer is hard coded to expect the vmlinuz file to be named vmlinuz.efi. However Cubic does not include an extension for the vmlinuz file, per Ubuntu convention. When the Pop!_OS is unable to find the vmlinuz.efi file, it crashes.
Reference Comment # 20 of the following Question:
"Pop!_OS 20.04 (13) Respin Issue" (https:/
Reference the following Bug which fixed a similar issue with the initrd extension.
https:/
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| Cubic PPA (cubic-wizard) wrote | #1 |
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| assignee: | nobody → Cubic PPA (cubic-wizard) |
| status: | New → In Progress |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
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| status: | In Progress → Fix Committed |
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| Cubic PPA (cubic-wizard) wrote | #2 |
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| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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It may be possible to remedy this issue for Pop!_OS by creating a link named "vmlinuz.efi" that points to the actual vmlinuz file.
When Pop!_OS tries to copy the vmlinuz.efi file, it will find the link, and copy the full "vmlinuz" file as "vmlinuz.efi".
This should eliminate the error/crash during installation.
(Note a work around is to manually edit the partitions during installation and explicitly ~not~ create a recovery partition).