[Bug 1746106] Re: Unable to intall grub

[Phillip Susi]

Your hard disk is partitioned with GPT instead of an MSDOS style
partition table, but you are booting in bios mode rather than EFI mode.
This requires the GPT disk to have a 1 mb bios_grub partition.


** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Unable to intall grub

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This bug happened while trying to install ubuntu 16.04 from live cd
  into an external hard disk. The partition was already done. The app
  said it wasn't able to install the grub, then I tried to cancel the
  installation and in the end the bug report app opened

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.4 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-28.32~16.04.2-generic 4.10.17
  Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376.2
  Date: Mon Jan 29 22:42:40 2018
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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