grub installation always fails .
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have a PC with 1Tera hard disk and used to work on windows 10 .. 2 days ago I tried to install Ubuntu using USB ( i tried FAT32 and NTFS Modes .. I don't actually know what they mean but tried both as grub always fails to get installed ) .. I didn't change any settings at this point .. I used my C partition (100 GB) to install Ubuntu on it by dividing it to 10GB swap and 90GB as ext4 root ...
my problem started when a warning appeared asking me if i want to force UEFI Installtion and i choosed "continue in UEFI mode" then the i had this error " 'grub-efi-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Wed Aug 8 17:09:08 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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