[Bug 1297380] Re: cannot install grub

[Zwylicht]

I think the problem was: I have not been aware that an efi boot
partition is needed. The installer did not complain about that and threw
the error.

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Title:
  cannot install grub

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  grub fails to install with 12.04 and 14.04 as well  at lenovo g700

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.29
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25~precise1-generic 3.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.315.1
  Date: Tue Mar 25 16:54:44 2014
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20140204)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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