[Bug 1605820] Re: ubuntu-mate install fails to install grub on dell e7470 with nvme ssd with gpt

[Phillip Susi]

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
the 16.04 installer in EFI mode. A warning message prompted you that
this could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install
instead, but you chose not to. You either need to perform the bios mode
install, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system
partition to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you
choose the "use entire disk" guided install option.

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  ubuntu-mate install fails to install grub on dell e7470 with nvme ssd
  with gpt

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Dell Latitude E7470
  PCIe NVMe SSD
  New partition table (automatically set as GPT)
  first partition unused
  second partition ext4 /
  third partition swap
  fourth partition ext4 /home
  tried /dev/nvme0n1p2 for grub location, previously tried /dev/nvme0 and it also failed

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Fri Jul 22 22:27:44 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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