18.10 has been fixed to install the bios version of grub instead when
this happens.
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Title:
Mate 18.04 64 grub update fails to write to g2G 1st p
Right. That makes sense now, after I gave up on this particular disk's
boot process, but later was forced to learn enough about bios/EFI to
find creative ways to get around bios/EFI boot issues.
So I take it grub-update or grub-install are simply not able to do the
right thing? Or both things. Tha
Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
the installer in EFI mode. You either need to boot the installer in bios
mode, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system partition
to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you choose the "use
entire d
