[Bug 1299134] Re: grub-installer failed during install trusty 64bit

[Shu Hung (Koala)]

So you mean the way installer to determine an EFI install or BIOS
install is not reliable.

Is it possible for the installer to detect if the EFI system partition
exists before doing grub-install?

I presume this partition is not created by grub, but is created by the
partition program. If the previous installer program thinks the computer
is EFI-boot ready, it should have made the partition available.  If the
installer could detect such partition's existence AFTER the
partitioning, this situation would not happen.

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Title:
  grub-installer failed during install trusty 64bit

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

Bug description:
  Trying to install Trusty (14.04) beta 2 with the install DVD iso and a USB thumb drive.
  All the other process success. Only the grub-install part failed.

  My laptop is a Lenovo B470.
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz
  Boots with BIOS (no EFI for the motherboard).

  Installing with the installer program in live cd session.

  Exptected to run through the whole install process.
  But it fails at the last stage (grub-install).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-19.40-generic 3.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-19-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.339
  Date: Sat Mar 29 01:39:03 2014
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=zh_TW.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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