[Bug 1798322] Re: Failed to install grub on a fresh install with custom partition selection

[Heiko Voigt]

It seems to be a secure boot / UEFI issue. Retrying with the same
bootentry and a minimal install also failed. I briefly saw something
about grub not being able to write somewhere in the install console.

Unfortunately I am not able to copy the text here, because the error
message box of the installer went above that. It would be nice if one
could investigate the output of the installer a bit more. It seems it is
not attached automatically here. Also after closing that message box the
installer console immediately dissapears, not very helpful to produce a
proper report.

When I selected a different boot entry for my USB-Stick (one without
UEFI in the name) I was able to install ubuntu without any problems.

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Title:
  Failed to install grub on a fresh install with custom partition
  selection

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When starting a fresh install for Ubuntu 18.04.1 I encountered this
  bug.

  The system has an SSD with Windows 10 on other partitions and the
  Ubuntu system should go on there while the /home partition has its own
  disk. I selected the SSD as the target to install grub.

  I started the install from an USB stick. While the installer was
  copying files it told me at one point that grub can not be installed
  on "/target" and the installation stopped.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Wed Oct 17 11:49:13 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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