Comment 4 for bug 828872

Further up in the syslog we see the following:

Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/efi
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda5: msdos
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-legacy
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-pc:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: startupmanager depends on grub | grub-pc; however:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: Package grub is not installed.
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: Package grub-pc is to be removed.
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--purge):
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dependency problems - not removing
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of grub-gfxpayload-lists:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: grub-pc depends on grub-gfxpayload-lists.
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dpkg: error processing grub-gfxpayload-lists (--purge):
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: dependency problems - not removing
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: Errors were encountered while processing:
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: grub-pc
Aug 18 16:04:35 mint grub-installer: grub-gfxpayload-lists