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

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

To the original bug reporter here:
- what operating systems are installed on your machine?
- are they booting in UEFI or Legacy (BIOS) mode?
- how many drives are present on your system and which one did you want to install ubuntu on?

It appears that two drives are present, and resize_use_free was chosen that resized installation on /dev/sda.
/lib/partman/automatically_partition/10resize_use_free/choices: paragraph: 1	1048576-368050175	367001600	primary	ntfs	/dev/sda1	
/lib/partman/automatically_partition/10resize_use_free/choices: paragraph: 2	368050176-161343340543	160975290368	primary	ntfs	/dev/sda2	
/lib/partman/automatically_partition/10resize_use_free/choices: paragraph: 8	161344389120-186202389503	24858000384	logical	ext4	/dev/sda8	
/lib/partman/automatically_partition/10resize_use_free/choices: paragraph: 6	186202980352-201200979967	14997999616	logical	linux-swap	/dev/sda6	
/lib/partman/automatically_partition/10resize_use_free/choices: paragraph: 7	201201811456-266193600511	64991789056	logical	ext4	/dev/sda7	
/lib/partman/automatically_partition/10resize_use_free/choices: paragraph: 5	266201989120-1000203091967	734001102848	logical	ntfs	/dev/sda5	
parted_server: main_loop: iteration 98

But /dev/sda does not have UEFI partition, nor one was created.

** Also affects: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Cannot install Ubuntu 14.04 on EFI hardware

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “partman-auto” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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