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This sounds crazy, and is, but following those instructions verbatim with a 16.04 install I managed to brick a new laptop. Yeah...

• iso-8859-1 10y ago
  Define "brick". You flashed the wrong BIOS?
  • pantalaimon 10y ago
    Possibly deleted the efi partition
    • vmp 10y ago
      Or "rm -Rf /" with a writable /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ mount. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
      • the_why_of_y 10y ago
        This problem was fixed half a year ago, surely Ubuntu 16.04 should have a backport of the relevant commits? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0389075ecfb6231818de9b0225d3a5a21a661171 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....