Although both 11.04 (Natty) and 11.10 (Oneiric) have reached End Of Life, this bug seems to be still alive in newer versions of Ubiquity. It may be a duplicate of bug 1176674. I have encountered something very similar (I would dare to say the same error) trying to install Lubuntu 13.10 (Saucy) developer preview on a SONY Vaio Pro 13. unfortunately I have no network connection yet on the machine, hence a manual report, in this bug.
I am attempting a UEFI dual boot system, Windows 8 and Lubuntu 13.10. I have wiped out SONY's proprietary mess. Then with Gparted I have marked the top 80GB of the SSD off-limit and let Microsoft Windows 8 install itself in the other 40GB. Everything works as expected and at the end of the process I get a GPT disk with an MS recovery partition, an EFI boot partition, another weird small partition that Gparted does not recognized, the 40GB main MS Windwos 8 partition and 80GB free space for Lubuntu. First bug: when I run the installer (downloaded a live CD about a week ago), it does not recognized the existing Windows 8 and states that "The computer currently has no detected O/S", leaving me only with two options: wipe out everything and install Lubuntu over it; or manual partitioning. One might cynically note that it is not necessary for Ubiquity to replicate the behaviour of a well known competitor mentioned above ;-) When I do "something else" (yes, it pains me to sacrifice 40GB for that other O/S, but it is a non-negotiable requirement on that laptop at this point in time), the partitioner recognize the EFI partition, so I only set up one extra partition in the rest of the SSD (and a SWAP partition on an SD card, just for the install, the intention is to not subject the SSD to the hard life of a SWAP partition and run the notebook without SWAP like I do with my current notebook). The installer takes its course and quits with the error message that th grub-efi package failed to install into /target/. Then I try something else: I set the EFI partition to a FAT32 partition and then I can give it the mount point /boot/efi per instructions at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI#Creating_an_EFI_partition -- I don't actually format/create the partition (because it contains the boot code for Windows), just point the installer there. It fails again, this time with a message saying that an attempt to mount filesystem vfat at /boot/efi failed. Next I will try backing the Microsoft EFI files up and formatting the EFI partition. At this point I just wanted to make sure that the knowledge is out there about the problem of the current (as of last week) Lubuntu installer to deal with EFI machines. ** Tags removed: natty ** Tags added: saucy -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/906045 Title: installer crashed grub-efi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/906045/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
