The 'grub-efi-amd64-signed' package failed to install into /target/
Without GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot.
Installation promptly crashed after this message.
There is no command line interface in which to start trying to install, fix or reinstall grub. It is as though no Linux was installed at all.
My problems started when my Lubuntu 16.01 was crashing during install and could not work out what to do about the swap. It was as though the swap was being used and could not be allocated. I had accumulated too many problems with my repositories and it was time to start fresh. Undeterred by the install problems, even after trying different combinations in many install attempts, I thought that if I reinstalled windows and linux and started with everything fresh, I might solve some problems.
I forced windows into 80 or so GB by leaving everything else unallocated and then booted Lubuntu usb and allocated 250 odd GB to my dual-boot-wide share (logical partition) then root (primary), home (logical) and swap (primary). I remember a time when I could see in the partition diagram the hierarchy of which logical partitions were a part of which primary partitions. I don't really understand the model anymore. I understood, in the past, I had only 3 or 4 primary partitions and I had to structure those into logical partitions. But now, it looks like there isn't even a hierarchy and Windows doesn't even seem to say whether their bloody list of useless partitions are primary or logical.
Anyway, I want to install Lubuntu and I have not had one of these two days of halted productivity while i play with problematic installs since 2003.
What is confusing install? Why doesn't it know where to put GRUB. What is stopping it. Why can't it install grub, and why does the installer keep crashing for different reasons?
Thanks. I'm absolutely stuck. I think it has to do with all those windows partitions ms is forcing on me and conflicts with the MBR.
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