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When installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS when the installation comes to the installation of "grub 2", it terminates and gives an error:

could not install the grub bootloader into target.

But the version of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and other distributions are installed without such problems. Please tell me what to do?

Melebius
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K.Kfatov
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    May be best to see details, you can run from your Ubuntu live installer or any working install, use ppa version not older Boot-Repair ISO: Post the link to the Create BootInfo summary report. Is part of Boot-Repair: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info and: https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ Sometimes running Boot-Repair fixes reinstalls grub. Report will tell if installing UEFI or BIOS boot mode. – oldfred May 02 '18 at 23:09
  • What is the exact command you are using to install grub onto your system? Please edit this question and provide with more detail. – Terrance May 03 '18 at 05:01
  • Rather than installing 18.04 you can clone your 16.04 to a test partition and upgrade it to 18.04 by rebooting to 16.04 clone and using sudo do-release-upgrade -d. You can repeat the cloning and upgrading many times until you are satisfied the new 18.04 passes the smell test. It might take a while. – WinEunuuchs2Unix May 05 '18 at 00:32

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I had a same problem. Most likely you are missing ESP partition on your first drive.

-Start install again

-Chose "something else" option when prompted

-Resize your sda1 partition and mount it as root

-Make new partition of 100-200Mb and for type select ESP

This should solve your problem.

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At the beginning of the partition division make room for installation. Prepare for ESP menu options and bootloader.

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doni bayu
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  • Your answer is a bit short. Please add some more information and guidance on how to do what you mentioned there, so that less experienced users can find it helpful as well. Thank you. – Byte Commander Jun 16 '18 at 16:26