grub2-efi-signed refuses to install to SSD drive
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've been trying to reinstall various versions of Ubuntu onto my System76 Lemur laptop with a Samsung ATA SSD and everytime I run the installer everything proceeds fine until grub2-efi-signed package tries to install and that repeatedly fails giving an error message that is not useful (it just says it failed to install giving no indication why).
I tried reformatting the EFI partition to FAT32 and retrying but even the same failure occurs when the grub2-efi-signed package tries to install itself.
My guess is there is something that the installer doesn't expect in the boot sectors of the SSD and this causes the installation of the grub2-efi-signed package to fail (without giving any useful info).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6 [modified: lib/partman/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Mon Jul 22 16:19:12 2019
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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