Abhishek lives in India and works as a Technical Architect. In the past years, he has extensively worked in.NET platforms, Azure Cloud, Salesforce Cloud and Python Data Mining. Grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into/ target/. Ubuntu installation problems on dell inspiron 3180 Ive been trying to install ubuntu 16.04 onto my new dell inspiron 3180. The install keeps getting stuck at this error.
I've had an error during an installation of KDE Neon.
In fact, I've had tried installing Kubuntu 18.04 with the same error:
'The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot'
But, it's important, not ever. I got a first installation OK but when I tried reinstalling the same OS I had that error.
I had installed KDE Neon the first time and everything finished OK. But I realized I'd committed some error, it doesn't matter what was, and I tried reinstalling and I had the error. I installed Kubuntu as I'd said and not problem. OK, Try again with Neon. Error. It wasn't matter if I had checked 'Install Third-party software...' or not, if I had had a Internet connection or not, etc., as I've read. In all the times I'd chosen a manual mounting and formatting partitions.
Why the first installation OK and not the rest? I don't have any idea. It could be a bug?
But I'd got an easy solution that has worked for me and I'm going to explain to be help for others.
As simply as deactivate 'secure boot' in the BIOS.
In my case, ACER R3, go to BIOS, set a password in 'Security' tab, go to 'Boot' tab and disable 'Secure Boot', which isn't possible if you hadn't set a password first. Go to 'Security' again and remove password (setting an empty password).
Install KDE Neon again, without problem, and reboot computer. Without problem, nor Neon neither Windows (In this computer I had Windows 10 too).
To finish, go to the BIOS again, set a password, enable 'Secure Boot', remove password and reboot. All has been OK.
Cheers
In fact, I've had tried installing Kubuntu 18.04 with the same error:
'The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot'
But, it's important, not ever. I got a first installation OK but when I tried reinstalling the same OS I had that error.
I had installed KDE Neon the first time and everything finished OK. But I realized I'd committed some error, it doesn't matter what was, and I tried reinstalling and I had the error. I installed Kubuntu as I'd said and not problem. OK, Try again with Neon. Error. It wasn't matter if I had checked 'Install Third-party software...' or not, if I had had a Internet connection or not, etc., as I've read. In all the times I'd chosen a manual mounting and formatting partitions.
Why the first installation OK and not the rest? I don't have any idea. It could be a bug?
But I'd got an easy solution that has worked for me and I'm going to explain to be help for others.
As simply as deactivate 'secure boot' in the BIOS.
In my case, ACER R3, go to BIOS, set a password in 'Security' tab, go to 'Boot' tab and disable 'Secure Boot', which isn't possible if you hadn't set a password first. Go to 'Security' again and remove password (setting an empty password).
Install KDE Neon again, without problem, and reboot computer. Without problem, nor Neon neither Windows (In this computer I had Windows 10 too).
To finish, go to the BIOS again, set a password, enable 'Secure Boot', remove password and reboot. All has been OK.
Cheers
- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a modern replacement over the BIOS for booting up operating systems. In most BIOS settings, you can choose whether you want UEFI enabled or disabled.
- Ubuntu works best with BIOS, not UEFI. So, if you are only installing Ubuntu on a computer or you have Windows 7 or older on it then you can disable UEFI in the BIOS settings and proceed to install Ubuntu with a
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partition and a swap partition. - However, if you already have Windows 8 or 10 installed on the computer, it will be using UEFI to boot and so UEFI cannot be disabled. Also, if you intend to install and dual boot with Windows in the future, it may be a good idea to keep UEFI enabled.
- If you already have Windows 8 or 10 installed then you will notice an extra 100MB partition named EFI while installing Ubuntu. Do not touch it and proceed with creating a
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and swap partition. Ubuntu will automatically install GRUB to use that EFI partition for booting. - If you do not have Windows, but want to keep UEFI enabled, then you will need to create a 100-200MB partition and pick its type as boot EFI while installing Ubuntu. The rest of the partitions for Ubuntu are the same. Just remember to create an EFI partition.
- If you forgot to create an EFI partition on a UEFI enabled computer and installed Ubuntu, then the installer will fail at the end with this error:
Tried with: Ubuntu 16.04