[Bug 1466367] Re: Installer ask where to install boot loader during uefi installation

[Phillip Susi]

Indeed, the installer should not be giving you a choice of where to
install grub, since grub is always installed to the ESP.  That is to
say, no matter what you choose, when doing an EFI install, grub is
always installed to whatever you mounted in /boot/efi.


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

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Title:
  Installer ask where to install boot loader during uefi installation

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  During UEFI boot install of 14.04.2 (from ~2015-6-16)  the installer asks for a location to install a boot loader. But according to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI it shouldn't. I'm sure i'm booting in uefi. I tried the uefi only image and normal way of creating the usb install drive.
  I have legacy boot disabled and created a new uefi boot entry pointing to the boot.efi on the usb drive.
  During boot i see the black screen giving me the choice what to do (install, try, check).
  I already have Debian 8 installed in uefi mode (no problems) and thus have an ESP. 
  I can select the partition for / but cant set the mount point for the ESP.  I don't want to risk installing grub to mbr by asking for a place fot the boot loader so i stop installing Ubuntu from that point. 

  It is a new mSata disk. On an other non ssd disk i have w8 and Ubuntu
  14.04.2 installed, but when that disk is removed the situation is the
  same. Because of previous installations (on non ssd) there is an uefi
  entry (ubuntu) visible during boot.

  How can i safely and certain install Ubuntu in UEFI mode without
  installing something/grub in MBR?

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