[Bug 1681580] Re: GRUB loader failed to download on installation

[John Wilson]

Phillip,
Thank you for your reply and indeed that is exactly what happened.
I was using a startup disk on a USB stick and if I try to boot up now I 
am stuck at the following screen:

    error: file 'boot/grub/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found
    Entering rescue mode...
    grub rescue>

Can you suggest a solution?
Regards,
John

Dr. John Wilson & Dr. Diane Martin,
9107 Skipsey Road,
Port Alberni, B.C., V9Y 9C2
Phone: 250-723-3752

On 2017-04-11 05:44 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
> the installer in EFI mode. A warning message prompted you that this
> could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install
> instead, but you chose not to. You either need to perform the bios mode
> install, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system
> partition to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you
> choose the "use entire disk" guided install option.
>
> ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
>         Status: New => Invalid
>

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Title:
  GRUB loader failed to download on installation

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Installing Ubuntu and the installation crashed

  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: Mon Apr 10 14:31:46 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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