Comment 66 for bug 1767703

I made an installer of ubuntu mate 18.04 and encountered failures in all methods of installation, side by side or to a newly created (gparted) ext4 partition with plenty of room and free space. It gets all the way though almost and kicks out the same error ‘apt-install grub efi …….’ I have a hybrid motherboard in this computer can use bios or uefi. Only way I got any joy was with a dvd ubuntu bionic beaver method. Usb never works and I tried over 20 times with different methods. I even tried to follow the ubuntu one directions to add the bootloader grub using copy/paste method. No good. I came to learn, after I was successful with the ubuntu via cd that there was indeed a successful installation but it never showed up until later when I put in the grub customizer app. So , I do have a working , or 2 working installations of ubuntu. The ubuntu mate (which is my favorite DE) is not successful. I am not any expert so no way to know how much is my fault and if or how much is a bug or issue with the installer. I used 3 separate methods to create the live dvd or usb too.

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Subject: [Bug 1767703] Re: Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

> In ubuntu 18.04 you need to select it manually while booting up.

Yes, user can select UEFI mode or BIOS at boot time of installation, but
somehow UEFI mode installation of opensuse (thumbleweed) works fine, but
1804 is not (on same disk and machine).

Also UEFI mode installation 1804 on that machine displays "message" what
it will be "manufactered mode" (as i remembered) and incorrectly defines
(displays in partition table) all existing ext4 partition as "efi", and
cant install grub on /dev/sdf(1), but tried on /dev/sda with failure
message.

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Title:
  Calling 'apt-install grub-efi-amd64-signed' failed

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  /plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
  /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
  /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1739, in <module>
  /plugininstall.py: install.run()
  /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 61, in wrapper
  /plugininstall.py: func(self)
  /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 227, in run
  /plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
  /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 971, in configure_bootloader
  /plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
  /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

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  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
  MBR-EFI-GPT explanations/requirements:

  https://askubuntu.com/questions/500359/efi-boot-partition-and-biosgrub-partition
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/831216/how-can-i-reinstall-grub-to-the-efi-partition
  https://askubuntu.com/questions/578928/why-i-need-several-boot-partitions-efi-and-bios-grub
  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

  Manual fix:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1766945/comments/3

  also see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-
  installer/+bug/1763441/comments/2

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

  https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2390700

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  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Apr 28 20:39:35 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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