I've attempted unsuccessfully several times to install Ubuntu alongside Windows on my new laptop. Initially Ubuntu 14.04 did install, but I was unable to boot it, after trying various things. I decided to start fresh, and did a factory reset, but that didn't touch the partitions that had been created for Ubuntu. I went into Windows 8 and deleted those two partitions, and then tried installing Ubuntu again, but was given this error message while installing the grub-2
package:
The
grub-efi-amd64-signed
package failed to install into/target/
. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot.
I tried installing again, but only got the same error message (and two more partitions created that I don't need).
I installed and ran boot-repair, but got this message:
An error occurred during the repair.
A new file (~/Boot-Info_2015-04-15__03h43.txt) will open in your text viewer.
In case you still experience boot problem, indicate its content to:
[email protected]
Locked-ESP detected. You may want to retry after creating a /boot/efi partition (FAT32, 100MB~250MB, start of the disk, boot flag). This can be performed via tools such as gparted. Then select this partition via the [Separate /boot/efi partition:] option of [Boot Repair].
However gparted isn't loading, so I can't do that. Any suggestions? I have no data on it, so I'm willing to clear everything back to the from-the-box settings, but I can't figure out how to restore the non-windows partitions back to factory settings.
grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/
: I had this problem just last night and it came from a bad usb install media. Were you using a USB to install? If you know how to find the install syslog, look for a hashsum mismatch when fetching the grub package. Try making a new install media with a brand new usb or at least a different one. If you are reusing one, re-format it more than once before burning the iso.