Comment 6 for bug 1396379

yes.
actually, i had already created it, in the installer i only selected it as
"efi system partition", but i don't think there is any real difference
francesco florian

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Phillip Susi <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> So you already have an EFI system partition on /dev/sda, but in the
> partitioning screen of the installer, you chose to create another one on
> /dev/sdb with the intention of using that one, but it still used the one
> in /dev/sda?
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> Title:
> grub2 does not install in the correct partition on efi system
>
> Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> (k)ubuntu 14.04.1
> package version: 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1
>
> i installed ubuntu on my external hard disk, where i also have a
> previously installed fedora system. i also have a windows
> (efi-booted) system in the internal hard disk.
>
> at install time via ubiquity i get all grub configuration files in the
> first EFI-labelled partition (i.e. /dev/sda2 in my case) instead of the one
> i selected (/dev/sdb1).
> later i changed my fstab mounting /boot/efi on /dev/sdb1 and tried to
> reinstall grub package (apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64); now
> all grub configuration files are in the rigt place, but booting from the
> external hard disk still shows the fedora grub installation, while selectin
> the internal hard disk from the bios menu shows a submenu listing ubuntu
> and windows.
> explicitly installing grub in the correct disk (grub-install /dev/sdb;
> grub-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg) has no effect, nor it has
> running efibootmgr (efibootmgr -c --disk /dev/sdb --part 1).
>
> expected results: grub shoud have been installed in the disk/partition i
> chose;
> actual results: ubuntu always chooses the first disk to install grub on.
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