[Bug 1616237] Re: Installer crashes trying to install EFI boot onto a normal (DOS) disc

[Phillip Susi]

The installer presented a warning informing you that you booted the
installer in UEFI mode, but your disk is partitioned for BIOS mode, and
suggested switching to a BIOS mode install.  You chose to continue in
UEFI mode.  Don't do that.


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

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Title:
  Installer crashes trying to install EFI boot onto a normal (DOS) disc

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This seems to be an installer silly. In this case, the install is
  installing over Kubuntu 14.04. The disc is a normal 500GB drive with a
  DOS partition table. The installer partition manager is aware of this
  but the boot installer seems to be oblivious of this. This makes an in
  situ upgrade virtually impossible. The computer's BIOS is running with
  UEFI disabled. (This is the 3rd attempt!)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Tue Aug 23 22:52:34 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   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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