[Bug 1697159] [NEW] Installation of Ubuntu Mate 17.04 crashed due to EFI problems in Grub

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Public bug reported:

Today, my Ubuntu 17.04 Laptop didn't start because it couldn't anything
to boot (it still worked like charm yesterday). I tried to use boot-
repair from a Live-USB-Stick with Ubuntu 17.04. Boot-repair said
something about missing EFI-stuff and wanted to write it to the
beginning of the disk. Because I didn't know whether that was the place
of my /home-partition, I instead tried to reinstall Ubuntu leaving my
/home-partition as is and just formatting the /boot- and /-partition.
Installation asked my, whether I wanted to continue in EFI-Mode possibly
giving away the possibility to boot into existing BIOS-installation
(which don't work anyway at the moment). I said yes and after installing
for a while the installation process stopped telling me again, that the
EFI-stuff didn't work properly.

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: Sat Jun 10 12:52:14 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubiquity-17.04.9 ubuntu-mate zesty

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Title:
  Installation of Ubuntu Mate 17.04 crashed due to EFI problems in Grub

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Today, my Ubuntu 17.04 Laptop didn't start because it couldn't
  anything to boot (it still worked like charm yesterday). I tried to
  use boot-repair from a Live-USB-Stick with Ubuntu 17.04. Boot-repair
  said something about missing EFI-stuff and wanted to write it to the
  beginning of the disk. Because I didn't know whether that was the
  place of my /home-partition, I instead tried to reinstall Ubuntu
  leaving my /home-partition as is and just formatting the /boot- and
  /-partition. Installation asked my, whether I wanted to continue in
  EFI-Mode possibly giving away the possibility to boot into existing
  BIOS-installation (which don't work anyway at the moment). I said yes
  and after installing for a while the installation process stopped
  telling me again, that the EFI-stuff didn't work properly.

  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: Sat Jun 10 12:52:14 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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