I received the same error when trying to install grub-efi on a MacBook
Pro 8,3 (with rEFInd installed through OS X).
marcus@macbookpro:/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu$ sudo apt-get install grub-efi
efibootmgrReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
efibootmgr is already the newest version.
efibootmgr set to manually installed.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
grub-gfxpayload-lists grub-pc grub2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
grub-efi grub-efi-amd64
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/45.1 kB of archives.
After this operation, 430 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 601330 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing grub2 ...
Removing grub-gfxpayload-lists ...
Removing grub-pc ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously unselected package grub-efi-amd64.
(Reading database ... 601309 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub-efi-amd64 (from .../grub-efi-amd64_2.00-7ubuntu11_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package grub-efi.
Unpacking grub-efi (from .../grub-efi_2.00-7ubuntu11_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up grub-efi-amd64 (2.00-7ubuntu11) ...
Install device isn't specified.
Usage: grub-install [OPTION] [INSTALL_DEVICE]
Install GRUB on your drive.
-h, --help print this message and exit
-v, --version print the version information and exit
--modules=MODULES pre-load specified modules MODULES
--boot-directory=DIRinstall GRUB images under the directory DIR/grub
instead of the /boot/grub directory
--target=TARGET install GRUB for TARGET platform
[default=current]
--directory=DIR use GRUB images from DIR. Takes precedence
over target
--grub-setup=FILE use FILE as grub-setup
--grub-mkimage=FILE use FILE as grub-mkimage
--grub-mkrelpath=FILE use FILE as grub-mkrelpath
--grub-probe=FILE use FILE as grub-probe
--allow-floppy make the drive also bootable as floppy (default
for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes.
--recheck delete device map if it already exists
--force install even if problems are detected
--force-file-id use identifier file even if UUID is available
--disk-module=MODULEdisk module to use (biosdisk or native). This
option is only available on BIOS target.
--no-nvram don't update the `boot-device' NVRAM
variable. This option is only available on
IEEE1275 targets.
--removable the installation device is removable. This option
is only available on EFI.
--bootloader-id=ID the ID of bootloader. This option is only
available on EFI.
--efi-directory=DIR use DIR as the EFI System Partition root.
--uefi-secure-boot install an image usable with UEFI Secure
Boot. This option is only available on EFI and if
the grub-efi-amd64-signed package is installed.
--no-uefi-secure-boot do not install an image usable with UEFI Secure
Boot, even if the system was currently started
using it. This option is only available on EFI.
INSTALL_DEVICE must be system device filename.
grub-install copies GRUB images into /boot/grub, and uses grub-setup
to install grub into the boot sector.
Report bugs to .
dpkg: error processing grub-efi-amd64 (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of grub-efi:
grub-efi depends on grub-efi-amd64 (= 2.00-7ubuntu11); however:
Package grub-efi-amd64 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing grub-efi (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup
error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
grub-efi-amd64
grub-efi
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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