[Bug 1705225] Re: Wouldn't install GRUB on installation (UEFI boot)

[Colin Brough]

Thanks apt-ghetto, that gave me enough information to work round things
and get an installation onto the machine - the crash error report was
very confusing, however...

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Title:
  Wouldn't install GRUB on installation (UEFI boot)

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  On attempted install of 17.04, Dell Inspiron laptop.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
  Package: ubiquity 17.04.9 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  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: Wed Jul 19 10:34:43 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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