[Bug 1562238] Re: grub-efi-amd64-siged failed to install

[James Jones]

After reporting, I realized I'd forgotten to mark the partition as
bootable. Doing so did not by itself solve the problem.

Contrary to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI ("Mount point:
/boot/efi (remark: no need to set this mount point when using the manual
partitioning, the Ubuntu installer will detect it automatically)"),
explicitly specifying the mount point let the install proceed without
problem. Perhaps that page could be corrected, and perhaps the installer
could note the absence of an EFI system partition?

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Title:
  grub-efi-amd64-siged failed to install

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am trying to install 16.04 to use UEFI rather than legacy BIOS. I
  looked at the instructions and created a 200 MiB FAT32 partition as it
  said I should. I did not specify a mount point--it said that the
  installation would cause it to be mounted at /boot/efi.

  I expected the install to complete without complaint, but instead got
  (line breaks on the popup window may have caused me to mistranscribe):

  grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install into / target/. Without the
  GRUB bootloader, the installed system will not boot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.51 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-15.31-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.368
  Date: Fri Mar 25 21:51:51 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
  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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