[Bug 1779928] Re: unable to install Ubuntu to laptop HDD from thumbdrive.

[Phillip Susi]

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
the installer in EFI mode. You either need to boot the installer in bios
mode, 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:
  unable to install Ubuntu to laptop HDD from thumbdrive.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Attempting to install Ubuntu from a thumbdrive to the HDD on an HP
  Pavilion laptop. After some finagling, managed to get laptop to boot
  from thumbdrive. Went through the usual dialog to select installation
  options, then told it to start the installation. It went to the
  progress bar for the installation, but didn't get very far in before
  popping up an error message stating that it had failed to install
  "grub-EFI-amd64-signed" to /target/ . Closing that dialog window
  closed out the installation attempt, with the HDD in question left
  unbootable, and opened the window to start the process to make a bug
  report. I was unable to determine the exact Ubuntu release I'm using,
  but the thumbdrive was created from an image downloaded from
  Ubuntu.com on 2018-07-02, for the default desktop version (not for
  server or any of the alternative variants of the distro).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Jul  3 13:46:31 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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