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

Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre mathieu.tl at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 13:33:25 UTC 2015


Indeed, this would be an aesthetic issue more than anything else;
whatever is picked would be ignored. I think this simply comes from the
drive picker which is usually there for other install paths, and doesn't
get hidden in the EFI case.

Adding bitesize tag, someone may be able to pick this up easily enough
to implementing hiding that dialog (provided it's indeed the right thing
to do).

** Tags added: bitesize

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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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