Public bug reported:
I can't install Lubuntu or Ubuntu 13.04 in a new UEFI-enabled laptop.
I want to install Lubuntu alongside Windows 8, which came installed in the
Laptop. I tested whenever UEFI was enabled in Windows and it is. The Live CD
boots normally in UEFI mode (followed the instructions in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI , UEFI is enabled in the Live CD too).
First of all, the Live CD doesn't has the "Install alongside Windows" option.
The only options I had were to erase Windows or go to the advanced
configurations. In the advanced configurations and in GParted, all the Windows
partitions were shown (with correct size and label), so it looks like it can
read the GPT without problems.
I decided to resize the Windows partition and install Lubuntu manually. Inside
Windows, there were two small partitions at the beginning of the disk (300 MB
and 100 MB), one huge Windows partition and a recovery image at the end (almost
20 GB). I reduced the huge partition, rebooted with the Lubuntu Live CD,
created one /boot partition (250 MiB, ext2), one swap partition (4 GiB) and an
Ext4 partition ("/", rest of the disk). I chose to install the bootloader at
the partition tagged as EFI and installed Lubuntu. The install stopped at some
point with the message "'grub-efi' package failed to install into /target/.
Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot". The terminal
had no interesting messages (only the usual logs from apt, saying that it is
installing grub-efi).
Tried to download latest version (apt-get update && apt-get install grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin) and it didn't work. Then, I connected to the
internet and chose to download new packages. It downloads and installs new
packages, but fails with the same error.
The new partition isn't bootable. The Windows partition wasn't damaged.
Since I couldn't install Lubuntu, I downloaded the Ubuntu iso today and it had
the same problems. Both were booted from disks (CD-R and DVD-R) instead of
USB-sticks. The Lubuntu image is from the day before yesterday, both had the
checksums tested.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
I can't install Lubuntu or Ubuntu 13.04 in a new UEFI-enabled laptop.
I want to install Lubuntu alongside Windows 8, which came installed in the
Laptop. I tested whenever UEFI was enabled in Windows and it is. The Live CD
boots normally in UEFI mode (followed the instructions in
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI , UEFI is enabled in the Live CD too).
First of all, the Live CD doesn't has the "Install alongside Windows" option.
The only options I had were to erase Windows or go to the advanced
configurations. In the advanced configurations and in GParted, all the Windows
partitions were shown (with correct size and label), so it looks like it can
read the GPT without problems.
- I decided to resize the Windows partition and install Lubuntu manually.
Inside Windows, there were two small partitions at the beginning of the disk
(300 MB and 100 MB), one huge Windows partition and a recovery image at the end
(almost 20 GB). I reduced the huge partition, rebooted with the Lubuntu Live
CD, created one /boot partition (250 MiB), one swap partition (4 GiB) and an
Ext4 partition ("/", rest of the disk). I chose to install the bootloader at
the partition tagged as EFI and installed Lubuntu. The install stopped at some
point with the message "'grub-efi' package failed to install into /target/.
Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot". The terminal
had no interesting messages (only the usual logs from apt, saying that it is
installing grub-efi).
+ I decided to resize the Windows partition and install Lubuntu manually.
Inside Windows, there were two small partitions at the beginning of the disk
(300 MB and 100 MB), one huge Windows partition and a recovery image at the end
(almost 20 GB). I reduced the huge partition, rebooted with the Lubuntu Live
CD, created one /boot partition (250 MiB, ext2), one swap partition (4 GiB) and
an Ext4 partition ("/", rest of the disk). I chose to install the bootloader at
the partition tagged as EFI and installed Lubuntu. The install stopped at some
point with the message "'grub-efi' package failed to install into /target/.
Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot". The terminal
had no interesting messages (only the usual logs from apt, saying that it is
installing grub-efi).
Tried to download latest version (apt-get update && apt-get install grub-efi
grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin) and it didn't work. Then, I connected to the
internet and chose to download new packages. It downloads and installs new
packages, but fails with the same error.
The new partition isn't bootable. The Windows partition wasn't damaged.
Since I couldn't install Lubuntu, I downloaded the Ubuntu iso today and it
had the same problems. Both were booted from disks (CD-R and DVD-R) instead of
USB-sticks. The Lubuntu image is from the day before yesterday, both had the
checksums tested.
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Can't install (L)Ubuntu 13.04 on 64-bit UEFI-enabled system alongside
Windows 8 (grub-efi failed to install)
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