[Bug 1305116] Re: Installation fails when installing GRUB to disk

[Rune K. Svendsen]

By the way, I think this is the relevant part of the log:

	Apr  9 14:38:09 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdd'
	Apr  9 14:38:09 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
	Apr  9 14:38:09 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force
	Apr  9 14:38:09 ubuntu grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
	Apr  9 14:38:09 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
	Apr  9 14:38:09 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --force failed.

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Title:
  Installation fails when installing GRUB to disk

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

Bug description:
  When installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my machine, the installation fails at
  the step where GRUB is installed onto the disk. I got a message saying
  something like:

  "Installation of GRUB to disk /dev/sdd failed. This is a fatal error".

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.12 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-23.45-generic 3.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.339
  Date: Wed Apr  9 16:52:27 2014
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140409)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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