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I got a new HP-Pavilion laptop with Windows 10 installed and I am trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 as dualboot. However, when trying to install Ubuntu, during the installation of GRUB (as part of the automatic installation process) I get the message: Executing 'grub-install/dev/nvme0n1' failed.

I disabled the fast boot option as well as the secure boot option in BIOS. System uses UEFI. This happens if I select "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager" as well if I try to configure it myself using the "Something else" option.

My partition table looks like the following:

/dev/nvme0n1
 free space 1MB
 /dev/nvme0n1p1 efi  272MB  unknown  Windows Boot Manager
 /dev/nvme0n1p2      16MB   unknown
 /dev/nvme0n1p3 ntfs 125911MB (this is the windows partition)
 /dev/nvme0n1p4 ntfs 262144MB (this is an empty partition for data)
 free space          123207   (this shall be the ubuntu partition - tried it with formatted as ext4)
 /dev/nvme0n1p5 ntfs 547MB  477MB (don't know what this partition is)
 free space          8MB
/dev/nvme1n1
/dev/sda                    (not sure what these last two partitions are, maybe something hidden by HP)

Now my questions are: any suggestions why this error would happen, and is there a (preferably easy) workaround? Does it make sense to choose the "Device for boot loader installation:" as /dev/nvme0n1p1 (Windows Boot Manager)? Or would that be a bad idea? Would it break something in the windows startup? I tried it with /dev/nvme0n1 (the top partition - this is where is failed before)

I will try to add a screenshot of the Gparted and the install menu. Install partition table and Gparted partition table

Any help is highly appreciated, as I don't really know how to continue from here.

Have a good day,

Phil

phil555
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Executing 'grub-install/dev/nvme0n1' failed ...I suppose it's a typo. There should be a space between 'grub-install' and '/dev/nvme0n1'. And you need to have "/dev/nvme0n1p1" mounted as ESP for your Linux installation since UEFI is being used.

Guest007
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So after all I managed to solve this. Posting it here, in case it might help someone.

I did an installation of Ubuntu using the whole hard drive.

GRUB installer still failed. Upon restart the rescue mode of HP came up and Windows got installed new from scratch. I guess that was stored on the /dev/sda drive which showed a capacity of 32GB before.

After that the first 1MB (as can be seen in the OP partition table) was gone.

Shrinked the Windows C: partition and tried my luck again with choosing "Install Ubuntu next to Windows Boot Manager" and this time it simply worked.

I still don't know why it didn't work before or why it worked now, but I am glad this is done now.

Thanks for your replies.

phil555
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