[Bug 1704475] Re: Installer crashes and displays message: "executing grub-install /dev/sda" failed. This is a fatal error

[Phillip Susi]

Your EFI system partition is corrupt; you will need to repair it with
either dosfsck or Windows' chkdsk/scandisk.


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

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Title:
  Installer crashes and displays message: "executing grub-install
  /dev/sda" failed. This is a fatal error

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Installer crashes and displays message: "executing grub-install
  /dev/sda failed. This is a fatal error". I was installing ubuntu 16.04
  alongside windows 10 on a dell laptop.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376.2
  Date: Fri Jul 14 14:13:34 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   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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