The 'grub-efi' package failed to install into /target/

[Omar Mohsen]

I got the following message during Oneric fresh install.

[Andrew Cranwell (andrew-cranwell)]

Can you provide some more info - which release, what is your partition layout etc.?

[Omar Mohsen (omohsen)]

I was replacing Natty with Oneiric beta 1, I installed it on a logical partition (Multi-boot with Windows).

[Andrew Cranwell (andrew-cranwell)]

Does this still happen with the final 11.10 release? Do you have an EFI system partition? I assume you are using 64-bit, booted into UEFI mode?

[Omar Mohsen (omohsen)]

Yes I have an EFI partition, I didnt try a fresh install with the final release.

[Sven Petai (hadara)]

I got the same message on fresh Kubuntu 11.10 (64 bit) install on Lenovo edge E320 that has EFI enabled. It turned out to be caused by missing the grub-efi package on the installation media.
Once I retried install with a working internet connection everything worked fine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]