[Bug 1682662] Re: Installation fail due to bootloader problems.

[Dylan Hayward]

Brilliant - thank you for responding Phillip! You are amazing! I ended
up solving it after a bit of a headache. Regardless, your reply is
awesome and it means a lot to me that you took the time.

In the end, the install failed, and it lead to my computer becoming non-
bootable. Not super fun, obviously. I ended up backing up necessary
files, then deleting all partitions and doing a fresh install.

I suspect not many people will encounter this problem but it might still
be an opportunity for minor improvement? The warning message that was
given to me was not totally clear (to me, at least) - I believe it said
something about UEFI mode and asked me if I wished to continue. Not
realizing that it might prevent me from booting up my system, I said
yes.

Perhaps a stronger warning or a more clear explanation for users who
don't have any expertise with GPI/EFI might be helpful? I will leave
this in your hands since you are the experts and know better than me,
but just a possible idea.

Thank you again and thank you to everyone who is contributing! I love
Ubuntu :)

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Title:
  Installation fail due to bootloader problems.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Attempting to install 17.04. Was running 16.04 off a partition.

  After wiping my Ubuntu partition and installing 16.04, the process
  halts due to a Grub Installer error.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: ubiquity 17.04.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-19.21-generic 4.10.8
  Uname: Linux 4.10.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.380
  Date: Fri Apr 14 00:11:13 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=unknown
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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