[Bug 1773062] Re: can't install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on Acer Aspire notebook

[buguldey]

Some more info.

1. When I was installing Ubuntu above, I specified /boot partition and
home dir encryption, among other things.

I retried the installation process without /boot partition and without
encryption - installation completed successfully.

2. Also, my PC is all-UEFI (without Legacy BIOS boot Setup option) -
Acer Aspire model ES1-432. Ubuntu installed some files to the EFI fat
partition, but they have no effect - GRUB does not show up on boot.
However this is probably for another bug report.

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Title:
  can't install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 on Acer Aspire notebook

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  grub can't be installed, installer failed to complete successfully

  please ask for any additional debug info, I am a professional
  programmer, we can work on this failure further.

  installation was being done from usb stick created by unetbootin

  in ubuntu installer i chose to turn off secure boot and entered a
  password for this twice.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
  Release:	16.04

  I took a Acer factory-formatted Windows 10 hdd, in gparted resized its
  main data partition, and added swap, boot, ext4 /, and an extra ntfs
  partition for data. No warning suggesting a bios mode install
  appeared, unlike in bug report
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1573412
  .

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376.2
  Date: Thu May 24 05:20:36 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=ru_RU.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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