[Bug 1514303] Re: installer fails to install grub on uefi system

[Echo Nolan]

Relevant line from UbiquitSyslog.txt:
Nov  9 05:12:46 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-install: error: attempt to install to encrypted disk without cryptodisk enabled. Set `GRUB_ENABLE_CRYPTODISK=1' in file `/etc/default/grub'..

I had a LUKS partition opened and had set up LVM lvs inside it. After
fixing GRUB manually, the system still wouldn't boot. Ubiquity didn't
create an /etc/crypttab so the system wasn't bootable. After creating a
crypttab, I had to rebuild the initramfses. The whole encrypted root
thing is underdocumented and pretty hard to get right.

In addition, it was happy to install without a /boot partition selected,
but grub-install won't work that way with an encrypted root.

** Package changed: grub-installer (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu)

** Summary changed:

- installer fails to install grub on uefi system
+ installer fails to install grub with encrypted root fs

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Title:
  installer fails to install grub with encrypted root fs

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I tried to install Ubuntu on my laptop. The system has Windows 8
  installed and I'm replacing Nix with Ubuntu. I used an encrypted root
  filesystem. Not sure which, if any, of these causes the problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.37
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.365
  Date: Sun Nov  8 21:13:39 2015
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --- cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt persistent
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  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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