[Bug 1782239] Re: Attempted install of 18.04 on a Dell Alienware 17 R5

[Seb James]

Thank you for the advice, that's very helpful.

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Title:
  Attempted install of 18.04 on a Dell Alienware 17 R5

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Grub boot loader failed to install the boot loader on the SDD. I'm
  attempting to install onto a SATA disk on the machine. The primary
  disk, as installed by Dell, is a PCI experss SSD and this has Windows
  on - the Ubuntu system isn't able to communicate with this drive.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
  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: Tue Jul 17 22:39:50 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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