fresh install fails during installation of grub-efi

[Borim]

i try install ubuntu 11.10 on a lenovo x121e.
first I have to remove a script with:
sudo rm /usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/40cdom

this prevents that the setup try to add the not existing cd to the repositories.

when the installation ask where to install, I choose the defult option. install on first hdd with 1 big partition. after filling the remaining forms, the installation continue....
until the grub2 is installed. during this process the error message comes "unable to install grub-efi to /target/"

due to this error the installation is aborted

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Thu Oct 13 23:42:13 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 199, in run
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 942, in configure_bootloader
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Oct 13 23:18:37 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Evan (ev)]

Oct 13 23:18:19 ubuntu ubiquity: Reading package lists...
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity:
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: Building dependency tree...
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity:
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: Reading state information...
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: Paket grub-efi ist nicht verfügbar, wird aber von einem anderen Paket
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: referenziert. Das kann heißen, dass das Paket fehlt, dass es abgelöst
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: wurde oder nur aus einer anderen Quelle verfügbar ist.
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: Doch die folgenden Pakete ersetzen es:
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: grub2-common grub-common
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity:
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu ubiquity: E: Paket »grub-efi« hat keinen Installationskandidaten
Oct 13 23:18:20 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi' failed

It looks like apt-install wasn't aware of the package pool on the CD, where grub-efi is located.

[Evan (ev)]

Ah, if you remove /usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/40cdrom, you're going to create this problem for yourself.

[Benedikt Winder (benedikt-winder)]

as a workaround: if you are connected to the internet it install's fine.

[bsd (bdowning)]

Instead of removing the 40cdrom file, I edited the line that checks for iso9660 fs and commented it out, forcing apt to accept usb install, but since it's an EFI install the I believe efi folder is missing from the /cdrom once it's chrooted