grub isn't installed when installed ubuntu 18.04.

Bug #1799458 reported by Isabel Gobbo
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Bug Description

grub isn't installed when installed ubuntu 18.04.What I do now?
How to restart the system with windows 7 in other hardrive?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Tue Oct 23 09:51:10 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Isabel Gobbo (isabelgobbo) wrote :
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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote :

Is this a resized installation, where you selected to install Ubuntu alongside Windows and let the installer resize partitions?

Oct 23 12:48:56 ubuntu ubiquity: Setting up grub-efi-amd64-signed (1.93.7+2.02-2ubuntu8.6) ...
Oct 23 12:48:56 ubuntu ubiquity: Instalando para a plataforma x86_64-efi.
Oct 23 12:48:56 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-install: erro: cannot find EFI directory.

Seems like this is failing because no EFI directory could be found; and is a known bug when resizing/ moving to an EFI install.

tags: added: efi-resize
tags: added: uefi-resize
removed: efi-resize
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