[Bug 889598] Re: Installer failed when installing grub (EFI system)

[Phillip Susi]

That is true, yet it tried to use the bios version of grub anyhow.  Of
course, 11.10 is end of life and no longer supported, so perhaps you
should try 16.04?

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Title:
  Installer failed when installing grub (EFI system)

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Trying to install from a USB drive, created with ubuntu. System boots
  on EFI, installer doesn't appear to detect the EFI system and tries to
  install grub on /dev/sda, which fails and prompts the crash reporter.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Sat Nov 12 14:59:12 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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