[Bug 1780848] Re: grub fails to install during fresh install on a side partition

[Phillip Susi]

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
the installer in EFI mode. You either need to boot the installer in bios
mode, 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:
  grub fails to install during fresh install on a side partition

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  USB install aside of 16.04 is second (divided) partition, all ok but
  fails to install grub. Tried all 3 choices sda6 (usb, which boot fine
  BTW), 16.04, and some strange windows version, all fail equally.

  Looks like a write problem like maybe it out grew expected space when
  stored

  device is Lenevo ideaPad with Intel core i7 8GB ram, 1 terabyte HDD
  2.5m cache, using amd64 download retrieved yesterday July 8

  note 18.04 runs fine off the USB and 16.04 still boots (though it is
  no longer usable since an auto update cause the default key ring
  system to so relentlessly request a password that locks the screen
  while it waits so nothing else can be done at least from a keyboard)
  16.04 ran fine for year till the update 2 or 3 weeks ago now) Just as
  an aside I never yet found out how to set the default key ring
  password. nothing I have seen on the web is current enough to be
  useful.

  Tried this now several times. have take the time using the USB running
  version to mount the the 16.04 partition and copy the /home space to a
  terabyte usb drive so I can now step on the primary partition.

  and try installing there. if that fails it will speak volumes.
  Hope this helps

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  Date: Mon Jul  9 14:56:48 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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