[Bug 1775058] Re: grub failed to install

[israel oluwole]

** Description changed:

  i have 16.04lts (xenial xerus/ ubuntu studio) 32bit and wanted to change
- to 64 bit it installs fine until i found a dialog box reporting that
- grub failed to install and system boot. thanks
+ to 18.04 lts 64 bit it installs fine until it popped a dialog box
+ reporting that grub failed to install and system will not be able to
+ boot. thanks
  
  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
  Date: Mon Jun  4 18:38:19 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Description changed:

  i have 16.04lts (xenial xerus/ ubuntu studio) 32bit and wanted to change
  to 18.04 lts 64 bit it installs fine until it popped a dialog box
- reporting that grub failed to install and system will not be able to
- boot. thanks
+ reporting that grub-efi-amd64 failed to install and system will not be
+ able to boot (during installation). thanks
  
  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
  Date: Mon Jun  4 18:38:19 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  grub failed to install

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  i have 16.04lts (xenial xerus/ ubuntu studio) 32bit and wanted to
  change to 18.04 lts 64 bit it installs fine until it popped a dialog
  box reporting that grub-efi-amd64 failed to install and system will
  not be able to boot (during installation). thanks

  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
  Date: Mon Jun  4 18:38:19 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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