XUbuntu installer crashed due to uefi error
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Was installing XUbuntu. I chose to install additional drivers. The installer informed me that secure boot would have to be deactivated for these to be installed, but the installer would help me do that if I just created a password that I would be asked about later.
Then after clicking ok, another window told me that the installer had started in UEFI mode, and I might not be able to boot any existing OSes after the install, which I didn't mind because I was installing on a harddrive with no pre-existing partitions, and therefore no existing OSes, so I chose to continue installing in UEFI mode.
This seemed like a reasonable choice to me, not exactly knowing that secure boot and UEFI are, let alone telling the two apart. Actually, even being presented with these rather cryptic messages didn't seem like a very user friendly experience to me.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2 [modified: lib/partman/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Sun Feb 26 01:16:37 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| Thomas Pryds (thomas-pryds) wrote | #1 |
| Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted the installer in EFI mode. A warning message prompted you that this could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install instead, but you chose not to. You either need to perform the bios mode install, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system partition to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you choose the "use entire disk" guided install option.