[Bug 1581410] Re: installer could not install grub

[Phillip Susi]

You are trying to install in UEFI mode.  To do this, you must create an
EFI system partition on the disk.


** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  installer could not install grub

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I wanted to install ubuntu 16.04. I used a GPT partition and installed
  a boot partition (EXT4). It failed saying that it could not install
  grub on / partition..

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.51 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-15.31-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.368
  Date: Fri May 13 19:18:44 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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