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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

This affects me too.  I have a newer Toshiba laptop that came with
Windows 8.1, and it boots UEFI.  I created space using windows tools,
created a Linux swap and root partition, and installed Xubuntu 14.04.1
from DVD.

Everything went as expected except the grub-install, it seems.

If I boot from the DVD, my partitions are there.  I can bind-mount dev,
proc and sys to the hard drive and chroot to the installed Xubuntu.  But
when I try 'grub-install' it says it's installing for x86-64-efi, which
is correct, but then it also says cannot find EFI directory.  The
machine is booting Windows no matter what I do.

As I understand it, the EFI directory is a smallish VFAT partition.  The
disk has that as /dev/sda2, and it's 260 MiB and has the "boot" flag
set.  What else does GRUB need?

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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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