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Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme (Dell XPS 13 9360)

Bug #1666157 reported by Tianxing Yang on 2017-02-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1507505: Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme. Edit Remove

This bug affects 4 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Dell Sputnik	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	grub-installer (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Critical	Unassigned

Bug Description

Machine: DELL XPS 13 9360 (shipped with Windows 10 Home 64-bit)
Tried to install Ubuntu 16.04.2 but ended up with "Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme"

Work-around:
(http://askubuntu.com/questions/696999/unable-to-install-grub-in-dev-nvme)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Mon Feb 20 01:33:06 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Tianxing Yang (ytxmobile) wrote on 2017-02-20:

Casper.txt Edit (1017 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (168.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (39.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (4.0 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (1.2 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Tianxing Yang (ytxmobile) on 2017-02-20

summary:

- Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme
+ Unable to install GRUB in /dev/nvme (Dell XPS 13 9360)

Tianxing Yang (ytxmobile) on 2017-02-20

description:

updated

Revision history for this message

Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2017-03-23:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2017-03-28

description:	updated
Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Critical

spike speigel (frail-knight) on 2017-05-08

affects:

grub-installer → dell-sputnik

Jared Dominguez (jared-dominguez) on 2017-05-08

Changed in dell-sputnik:
status:	New → Invalid

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