This affects me too. I have a newer Toshiba laptop that came with Windows 8.1, and it boots UEFI. I created space using windows tools, created a Linux swap and root partition, and installed Xubuntu 14.04.1 from DVD.
Everything went as expected except the grub-install, it seems. If I boot from the DVD, my partitions are there. I can bind-mount dev, proc and sys to the hard drive and chroot to the installed Xubuntu. But when I try 'grub-install' it says it's installing for x86-64-efi, which is correct, but then it also says cannot find EFI directory. The machine is booting Windows no matter what I do. As I understand it, the EFI directory is a smallish VFAT partition. The disk has that as /dev/sda2, and it's 260 MiB and has the "boot" flag set. What else does GRUB need? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1277865 Title: Cannot install Ubuntu 14.04 on EFI hardware To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1277865/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
