problem with installing and booting ubuntu

Bug #1671331 reported by Jaromir
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I have tried to open gparted, removed all partitions and created one 150 MB at the beginning (unformated grub_bios flag), then one 4GB less than max (ext4), then the rest 3.72 GB (linux-swap).

Then I ran boot-repair - everything went smooth (summary: Boot successfully repaired.

Please write on a paper the following URL:
http://paste2.org/tFf8f5hY

In case you still experience boot problem, indicate this URL to:
<email address hidden> or to your favorite support forum.

You can now reboot your computer.)

Then I tried to install ubuntu, using the USB stick that I am running the live session with.

Made the Ext4 mount point at "/" and began to install.. everything went fine until the "grub2 installation" then a failure message appeared and the installation closed.

Thanks for any advices..

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Thu Mar 9 04:49:10 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jaromir (konec) wrote :
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apt-ghetto (apt-ghetto) wrote :

You do not need an unformated "bios_grub"-partition for an UEFI installation.

You need an EFI-System-Partition with FAT32 and mounted on /boot/efi

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

[Expired for grub-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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