Hello all,
So it looks like I got it working. Here are the steps I took:
• Boot into UbuntuStudio 18.10 Live > Try Ubuntu without installing.
• Open gparted and create the partitions to be installed to(no lvm or encrpytion). I created a 512MB EFI, 512MB boot, 50GB root, 880GB home, and 8GB swap partition. Close gparted
• Run the installer, unselect “Download updates while installing” and unselect the third party software option. Install.
• It once again failed at the installation of grub.
• Quit installation, reboot to the live install usb again
• Mount root and boot to /mnt and /mnt/boot
• Mount virtual filesystems
Code:
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i mnt$i; done
• Chroot to the system
• Update repos [apt-get update]
• purge grub
Code:
apt-get purge grub-common
• Format the EFI partition from terminal
Code:
mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
(Not sure this part was necessary, but I read in some other forum and post of someone with a similar issue stating that grub failed to install because it wasn’t formatting the efi partition properly for whatever reason)
• Reinstall grub
Code:
apt-get install grub-pc
This time there were no errors/warnings and it appeared to complete as normal, so I rebooted and It booted Ubuntu Studio as expected.