Trying to install latest Ubuntu desktop release 14.10 on a new system with 64-bit Intel X99 motherboard having UEFI firmware. For the installation I am using a USB EFI formatted live USB stick. My system has 2 physical 1TB Winchester hard drives (sda
and sdb
), where sda
contains a bootable and working Windows 8.1 UEFI partitioned installation and sdb
has been pre-partitioned for a Ubuntu UEFI installation. When running the Ubuntu installation process, the installer crashes while installing grub2 with the message:
The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/.
Without the Grub boot loader, the installed system will not boot.
I have uploaded a detailed boot-repair description of how my hard disks are partitioned at http://paste.ubuntu.com/10300722 for your review as necessary.
I have created a separate partition on the second hard disk (sdb1
) for Ubuntu's boot files to reside in. However, for some reason, even when selecting this partition in the installer when using option "something else", the installer fails to properly install the required UEFI boot files.
My goal is to boot using the UEFI firmware's boot menu, not grub
or the Windows boot menu.
Can this be accomplished with Ubuntu?