installer lies about success installing grub2 on efi

[Alejandro Mery]

Binary package hint: grub2

installing natty on an efi system nothing suggests grub-install needs the efi partition mounted as /boot/efi and nothing suggests either the user it failed until one reboots and ubuntu does not boot.

the magic behind /boot/efi isn't documented anywhere either leading to huge frustration to users.

[Andrew Cranwell (andrew-cranwell)]

Which install method are you using (desktop/server/alternate CD, netboot, USB) and which architecture? Did you boot into UEFI mode to install?

I'm not sure that "the process is not adequately documented" is grub's fault - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting for a great deal of info on setting up grub with Ubuntu.

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

It was the normal desktop CD and the alternate cd. The laptop was partitioned in efi mode and the installer said in both cases grub had installed successfully, which wasn't true. Installer worked out-of-the-box when /boot/efi was previously mounted.

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

oops, forgot to mention it was in 11.04. no idea if it's "fixed" in 11.10 because I updated the system instead of reinstalling.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

This is ancient. Is this still an issue?

[Alejandro Mery (amery)]

I haven't experienced anything related recently

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