[Bug 1239453] [NEW] installer could not put a boot reference on any 'device' chosen from those on on uefi gpt drive

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Public bug reported:

On a win 7 home premium Asus N56vm laptop - used partition wizard mini
tool to make an ext4 partition and some space after the standard uefi
windows partitions.

put a \ mount point in ext4 partition made an ext2 home partition made a swap of 10 GB
using a usb2 16 GB sandisk pendrive with a bootable 13.04 ubuntu live.
persistance enabled with boot repair downloaded and installed to it.

installer seemed to do it all and then showed a message that it could
not place the boot

Uefi machines are some years old now and win 7 isn't exactly new. There
is no secure boot issue as in win 8 so why the installer troubles? What
a shambles!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.331
Date: Sun Oct 13 21:57:27 2013
InstallCmdLine: bootkbd=us console-setup/layoutcode=en_US console-setup/variantcode=nodeadkeys locale=us_us  persistent noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 raring ubiquity-2.14.6 ubuntu

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Title:
  installer could not put a boot reference on any 'device' chosen from
  those on on uefi gpt drive

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  On a win 7 home premium Asus N56vm laptop - used partition wizard mini
  tool to make an ext4 partition and some space after the standard uefi
  windows partitions.

  put a \ mount point in ext4 partition made an ext2 home partition made a swap of 10 GB
  using a usb2 16 GB sandisk pendrive with a bootable 13.04 ubuntu live.
  persistance enabled with boot repair downloaded and installed to it.

  installer seemed to do it all and then showed a message that it could
  not place the boot

  Uefi machines are some years old now and win 7 isn't exactly new.
  There is no secure boot issue as in win 8 so why the installer
  troubles? What a shambles!

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.14.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.331
  Date: Sun Oct 13 21:57:27 2013
  InstallCmdLine: bootkbd=us console-setup/layoutcode=en_US console-setup/variantcode=nodeadkeys locale=us_us  persistent noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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