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Grub install failure

Asked by Eric

I just finished my PC build, and am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04, both, first time. I was able to burn an image of the ISO, and boot up Ubuntu through my cd/dvd drive. However, when I try to install it to my SSD I receive an error. It states "Unable to install Grub in /dev/sda... Executing 'grub-install/dev/sda' failed... This is a fatal error". Once I click out of that, it states "Bootloader install failed", and wont let me do anything else after that. I haven't messed with any of the settings. Just burned the image and tossed it in. Any help would be great, and I'll try to provide as much information as possible.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

Are you trying to install in UEFI mode? Did you make an EFI partition, FAT filesystem, 300M? If using gpt partitioning and in legacy mode, did you make a grub-bios partition 2M unformatted?

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