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

[Shu Hung (Koala)]

I think you must have noticed these:

1. My boot USB is boot in EFI mode
2. My system is not currently a EFI boot environment. There is no EFI partition.
3. The installation fails because of (2).

Judging from (1), you can only be certain that my system COULD SUPPORT
EFI. You cannot be certain that my system IS USING EFI to boot OS in my
harddisk.

And as you stated clearly:
(a) The installer is judging to use grub-efi by (1) and only (1); But,
(b) grub-efi CANNOT be installed under situation (2).
(c) Situation (1) and situation (2) are not mutually exclusive.

Now, contrary to the installer's logic, grub-efi can only be installed
if my system if it IS USING EFI, not it COULD SUPPORT EFI. That means
when the installer thinks it is OK to install grub-efi on my system, it
is wrong. Right? I described this as "confusion". You might not like my
word, but facts remain.

Then you basically stated that it is a user's problem of not letting the
installer to wipe the harddisk. If that's the case, perhaps it is a huge
bug for the installer to pretend that user can choose otherwise.

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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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