[Bug 1775852] Re: Unable to install bootloader on fresh install

[Karl William]

I have also tried to install 18.04 LTS and it failed several times (256 GB M2 drive).
Seeking a solution I read somewhere about leaving 1-2 MB of space before efi partition. In the beginning of linux era as I remember there was a practice of leaving some space before adding partitions.
So I did so through Ubuntu installer:
- Create 2 MB FAT32 partition
- Create 1024 MB efi partition
- Create / (root) partition on the rest
- Delete 2 MB partition

Click on Install now!

I haven't changed anything else, just these 2 MB and voila it installed
without any problem!

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Title:
  Unable to install bootloader on fresh install

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Unable to install Bootloader on any of the 3 different drives on the
  computer(256GB M.2, 128GB SSD or 500GB HD)Fresh install from
  previously used LiveUSB.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.392
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Jun  8 09:38:19 2018
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Beta amd64 (20180404)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   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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