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grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install in / target/.

Asked by Marc

During install, I got the message "the grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install in / target/."

So I installed KDE Neon 16.04.
During the neon install, I got a popup about using efi or not.
When I selected efi, I got the same result as with Kubuntu 18.04, when I chose not to use efi, all went well.
Problem: Kubuntu did not give me the choice of using efi or not, it just assumed an efi install, while the disk is in dos format.

The Samsung laptop has a dual boot W10 (in place upgrade from W7),
and when I look at the output of fdisk, the disk has the dos partitioning on it.

Am I correct that Kubuntu does not correctly detect the dos disk partitioning format,
so this is a bug ?

I selected /dev/sda6 as my / partition and left the default /dev/sda for installation of the bootsector

@m:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/loop0: 236 MiB, 247422976 bytes, 483248 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop1: 87 MiB, 91160576 bytes, 178048 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/sda: 931,5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xd246975f

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 204800 100M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 406730751 406523904 193,9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 406732798 1908504575 1501771778 716,1G 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 1908504576 1953523711 45019136 21,5G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda5 406732800 424128511 17395712 8,3G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 424130560 619440127 195309568 93,1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 619442176 678033407 58591232 28G 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 678035456 1908504575 1230469120 586,8G 83 Linux

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Jeremy (wa113y3s) said : 		#1

There have been a lot of issues with EFI installs with networking enabled since about July 10

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Marc (mbbs) said : 		#2

I tried the install with and without network enabled, there is no difference.

In the mean time I found in the BIOS something called boot override, and there I have the choice to boot the installation USB medium with or without uefi.
I'll give it a try next week, as now I really need W10 to run an application that does not work on linux.

This application is the only reason why I still dual boot, it is a drawing program for electrical schematics according to Belgian electrical safety standards, and unfortunately it does not run on linux (wine)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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