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setting bootloader on GPT drive makes it crash on grub install #83

Closed ThaChillera closed 6 years ago

ThaChillera commented 7 years ago

setting bootloader to install on a gpt drive (lets say in this case it's /dev/sda), requires it to either have an ESP for UEFI boot or BIOS Boot sector for legacy boot. if you don't have the correct one, the installer will crash with the message:

"the 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/".

my forum posts about it:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=242324&p=1309911#p1309911

vladimir-vb commented 6 years ago

The same crash and message happened to me though I have correct EFI partition on my GPT drive. And Ubuntu 18.04 completes installation to the same target without crashing, and thanks to it I could boot up my PC to Linux mint 18.03 to type this comment.

clefebvre commented 6 years ago

This is off-topic, it relates to ubiquity, not live-installer (LMDE).