[Bug 1690866] Re: installer could not install grub

[Adriano Varoli Piazza]

Thanks for the prompt answer. I need to point out a few things:
-I didn't choose anything regarding UEFI before. This is all the installer.
-The text, at least for the Spanish translation, says different: something
more about "if you choose UEFI boy you might have trouble booting other
OSes".
After that, the options are to continue with UEFI por to go back. But I
never get to choose "do this in bios mode now".
- I don't want to erase everything because my home partition has my files
and I wanted to keep them. Apparently the only way I can do that is by
doing manual partitioning.


I'm now trying to reinstall taking this advice into account.

Adriano Varoli Piazza


El 15 may. 2017 13:50, "Phillip Susi" <psusi at ubuntu.com> escribió:

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:
  installer could not install grub

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Installer failed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubiquity 16.10.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.379
  Date: Mon May 15 13:05:24 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=es_CL.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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