[Bug 1466047] Re: Install in UEFI mode installs grub-pc

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Right. This would most likely be because there is a popup which asks
whether to ignore the fact that the system is booted in EFI, and it
interprets the answer as "continue without EFI". In this case, things
revert to using mostly non-EFI code paths (so, no automatically made
ESP).

It otherwise could be simply because you did not create an ESP when
manually partitioning (did you? Sorry if I misread), and we're hitting
one case in partman-efi which isn't correctly handled, if you didn't get
any EFI-related popups.

It would be a good test if you could try the same process you use, with
an Ubuntu image rather than a Kubuntu image, to see if everything
behaves the same way. I'm wondering if we're not "simply" hitting one
case which is broken due to changes that got forgotten in the Kubuntu
version of the installer. If so, it really needs to be fixed.

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

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

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Title:
  Install in UEFI mode installs grub-pc

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Installing Kubuntu 15.04 to a self built machine with Gigabyte GA-
  F2A85X-UP4 motherboard with new 4TB disk.

  Got machine to boot DVD in UEFI mode and when into "Try Ubuntu" mode
  so that I could check it was running in UEFI.  Then hit "Install
  Kubuntu".  Used manual partitioning,  created new partition table and
  set up partitions, including EFI.  Completed install and rebooted.

  Machine booted OK but when checked it was not running in EFI mode.
  Disk had been formatted as GPT, EFI partition created and mounted but
  empty.  grub-pc had been installed, not grub-efi.

  I manually removed grub-pc and installed grub-efi, plus a few tweaks,
  and everything then OK.

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