Comment 60 for bug 1237519

@Brandon,

I was able to successfully boot into 12.04. The trick, I think, is that you need two sets of driver disks in order to pull this off.

I tested this on a PowerEdge C8000 series server, which allowed me to boot trouble-free into an EFI shell to load the Fusion-io.efi module.

The reason is because there are two kernels involved on this daily image of 12.04. The installer kernel is running 3.8.0-29 while the final kernel that gets installed is 3.8.0-35. Since the kernel modules are built for a specific kernel, I'm guessing what happened to you was that you had 3.8.0-29 drivers but didn't have any for the 3.8.0-35 kernel, thus, when the OS tried to boot it fell down on you.

Here's what I did:

1) Because of this situation, I had to create kernel modules for both 3.8.0-29 and 3.8.0-35, create packages, and put the respective packages on my driver disk USB stick.

2) Once those were in place, I booted up with the kernel command line "anna/choose_modules=driver-injection-disk-detect"

3) I verified both sets of kernel modules were installed. The installer picked up the fioa device and I could install without trouble..grub gave me no problems.

4) Once that was done, I rebooted into an EFI shell, loaded the Fusion-IO module, then booted from grubx64.efi on the FIO device.

5) From the grub prompt I saw an "efidisk write error". This can be safely ignored and after a few seconds the Operating Sytem booted up just fine from the fioa disk partitions.

So, 12.04.4's daily builds are indeed good to go from the testing I was able to do.

I'll send along the packages I used along with the steps I used to boot this machine up successfully.