[Bug 1277865] Re: Cannot install Ubuntu 14.04 on EFI hardware

[Jason Sharp]

I'm having the same problem, EFI or Non-EFI hardware.

On non-EFI hardware I recieve

Unable to install GRUB in (hd0, 1)
executing 'grub-install (hd0, 1)' failed.
this is a fatal error

/var/log/syslog has

grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '(hd0, 1)'
grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force "(hd0, 1)"
grub-installer: Installing for i386-pc platform 

**NOTE** uname -a shows this as a x86_64 machine, which is correct, but
grub-installer thinks i386

grub-installer: grub-install: error: disk `hd0, 1` not found
grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force "(hd0, 1)"' failed

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Title:
  Cannot install Ubuntu 14.04 on EFI hardware

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “partman-auto” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “grub-installer” source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in “partman-auto” source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I've tried installing Ubuntu 14.04 alongside Windows 8 64bit in EFI
  mode and grub-installer keeps crashing.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.17.5 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.27-generic 3.13.2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.337
  Date: Sat Feb  8 08:18:05 2014
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140208)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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