Hello, thanks for your answer, though I do not agree for two reasons:
1) The disk is partitioned with GPT and runs currently with this partition table a EFI System. It did always (in past and present) boot in UEFI mode to the partition which used to contain the Ubuntu 14.04 which was installed by Dell. I did not get a warning as you wrote. I got another warning which said, in my words, that there is an _other_ OS on some partition on the disk which may be in bios mode and might not boot afterwards any more. This was ok for me, since I did not need that OS any more (actually the OS on the partition never worked, it was a previous failed attempt to install ubuntu 16.04 in legacy mode). 2) Even if your assumption would be right, it is not an acceptable behaviour that an application crashes if the user is doing something wrong, unless it is something nasty as deleting files which the application needs to run. So the correct behaviour would be to raise an error message instead to crash. Meanwhile I managed it to do this: I did an upgrade of the already existing partition from Ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 16.04, by using a USB-Installer of Ubuntu 16.04, daily build from April 17th, thus almost final. That lead to a running 16.04 system on the old partition, booting with EFI, without changes of the partition table. A few minutes ago, I did another attempt to do a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 (now Final Relase, offline, thus without downloading any update during installation) on the other partition, just the way that I did it when I reported the bug. That worked now! I still got the warning which I mentioned above (but not yours). Whether there was the bug fixed meanwhile, or whether it worked because I upgraded the other partition (and by that way also the grub on that disk), .. I can't tell. I personally think it is unlikely that the bug was fixed in the few days between April 17th and final Release, where only very critical changes should have been allowed, and I recommend to reopen the ticket. For me it works now, so I won't complain in any case, but I write this to help you to make Ubuntu even better. Regards, Peter Stoll Am 23.04.2016 um 20:54 schrieb Phillip Susi: > You are trying to install in EFI mode to a disk that is not partitioned > for it, and chose to ignore the warning suggesting a bios mode install. > > ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu) > Status: Confirmed => Invalid > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1571230 Title: Installer crashes with UEFI, can't install grub to /target/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1571230/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
