error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Operation not permitted.

[Y Budi Sulistioadi]

Dell Latitude e7270 installation failed when setting the configuration the grub

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubiquity 20.04.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-26.30-generic 5.4.30
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.445
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 24 12:34:39 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Apr 24 04:33:47 ubuntu ubiquity: Setting up shim-signed (1.40.3+15+1533136590.3beb971-0ubuntu1) ...
Apr 24 04:33:48 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Apr 24 04:33:48 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Apr 24 04:33:48 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force "/dev/sda"
Apr 24 04:33:48 ubuntu grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
Apr 24 04:33:50 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: warning: Internal error.
Apr 24 04:33:50 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: error: failed to register the EFI boot entry: Operation not permitted.
Apr 24 04:33:50 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force "/dev/sda"' failed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Logan Tann (logon313)]

I got the same bug when I tried to install ubutnu 20.04LTS on my MSI laptop (GL72m 7Rex) using the live gui, same error appears when I do a boot-repair.

Attached boot-repair log in attachment

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

I had this error on Ubuntu Mate 20.04, also when running grub-install chroot'ed to the failed installation. After converting the partition table from MBR to GPT, grub-install worked.

[Harry Rocas (hrocas-6317)]

currently happening to me on Ubuntu 20.10. Never had any issues installing linux systems until I installed Ubuntu 20.10

"executing grub install /dev/sda failed this is a fatal error"

also posted a similar report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1901148

boot-repair did nothing. tried to dual boot with windows 10 in case their installer would fix it. no luck.