Ubuntu
grub-installer package

Ubuntu installer failed: The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot.

Bug #1629589 reported by Vivek Kumar
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This bug affects 15 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

Report showed that ubiquity had some problem.

I have tried once again doing resizing the partition (and formatting them)... but the result is same.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Sat Oct 1 13:36:46 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Vivek Kumar (yaayaawar) wrote :
summary: - Ubuntu-Gnome Installer crashed. Showed 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package
- failed to install into /target/. After it asked to quit the
- installation. Now my Windows is also booting. rather it shows the grub
- rescue screen.
+ Ubuntu-Gnome Installer crashed. Showing 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package
+ failed to install into /target/. Afterwards, it asked to quit the
+ installation. Now my Windows is also not booting. rather it shows the
+ grub rescue screen.
summary: Ubuntu-Gnome Installer crashed. Showing 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package
failed to install into /target/. Afterwards, it asked to quit the
- installation. Now my Windows is also not booting. rather it shows the
+ installation. Now my Windows is also not booting, rather it shows the
grub rescue screen.
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: Ubuntu-Gnome Installer crashed. Showing 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/. Afterwards, it asked to quit the installation. Now my Windows is also not booting, rather it shows the grub rescue screen.

You appear to have had some network problems that prevented downloading files during installation. Please try again when your network is working better, or unplug from it entirely.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Confirmed when I was trying to install zesty recently. Can't remember if I chose to download packages during install. Certainly I would not have had wifi set up yet.

Also confirmed by bug 1411670.

If networking problems are causing this then in the least we need better error handling/messages.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)
Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
summary: - Ubuntu-Gnome Installer crashed. Showing 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package
- failed to install into /target/. Afterwards, it asked to quit the
- installation. Now my Windows is also not booting, rather it shows the
- grub rescue screen.
+ Ubuntu installer crashed. Showing 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed
+ to install into /target/. Afterwards, it asked to quit the installation.
+ Now my Windows is also not booting, rather it shows the grub rescue
+ screen.
summary: - Ubuntu installer crashed. Showing 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed
- to install into /target/. Afterwards, it asked to quit the installation.
- Now my Windows is also not booting, rather it shows the grub rescue
- screen.
+ Ubuntu installer failed: The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to
+ install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed
+ system will not boot.
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Nope, that bug is unrelated.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
armin (alizadeh)
Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

Is the fix actually released? grub-efi-amd64-signed still fails to install from the daily Zesty DVD image as of Saturday 25th Feb on my NUC (and FWIW, I asked for updates to be applied during the install process).

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Rocko (rockorequin) wrote :

Ignore my last comment; I had chosen manual partitioning and it turns out that ubiquity is just extraordinarily unfriendly when it comes to EFI installations. Specifically, it didn't warn me it would completely fail if I didn't create an ESP partition, instead crashing spectacularly and supplying no useful information about what the problem might be ten minutes later when it got round to trying to install grub.

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Ryan (ryan2017) wrote :

grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot.

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Ramón Casero (rcasero) wrote :

I got the same error as Ryan #8 reinstalling Ubuntu 17.10 over a previous 17.10

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