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grub-installer package

i m getting "Executing 'grub-install/dev/sda2' failed.This is a fatal error." in my HP UEFI laptop running windows 8.1

Bug #1871535 reported by Ranjan on 2020-04-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1851955: installation fails in grub-install with: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd <N> failed: Invalid argument. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub-installer (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have disabled 'Fast boot' and 'secured boot'.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: ubiquity 19.10.21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.427
Date: Wed Apr 8 16:25:11 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Ranjan (rjn991) wrote on 2020-04-08:

Casper.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (6.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (118 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (21.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (781.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (384.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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