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

[Phillip Susi]

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
the 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:
  Installation of Ubuntu Mate 17.04 crashed due to EFI problems in Grub

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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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