Bootloader install fails and system will not boot
Bootloader install fails or the new system will not boot from the disk it was installed to, often on EFI systems.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 23 August 2016 · last reported 20 August 2026
What's going wrong
Several people report that the GRUB bootloader step fails during install with messages about memory, a missing 32-bit EFI package, or a missing EFI file.
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