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[–] Disappointed 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Yea that doesnt look like it will help. The only other thing I can think of is to try running boot repair: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

and going with the second option under Get Boot Repair

It's worked well for me in the past and cant do any harm.

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[–] 5413916? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

By start of disk they mean the partition should be the first one shown in Gparted. So after you create it you should see a new small unallocated box before all the other partitions. Then you need to select that box and right click to format to fat32. Then you need to move the flag it as boot by I think right clicking again, then remove the boot flag from the locked Esp partition. The do what Disappointed said with the boot repair tool. If you still dont understand you can search youtube for gparted creating partitions or something and it will show you how.

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[–] Disappointed 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Nah, it's not sad. Now we are getting somewhere though. Yea use the same Ubuntu on the USB we are using that to get your real Ubuntu install working hopefully. So what that tells us is Ubuntu installed fine but your bootloader couldn't install because your esp is locked by your manufacturer, so it just didn't install. It didn't say anything because technically Grub bootloader isn't part of Linux/Ubuntu even though it's needed. So...we need to use Gparted again.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1091477

**************** WORKAROUND:

1) via Gparted create another EFI partition (FAT32, 200MB, located at the start of the disk)

2) move the 'boot' flag on it

3) make Ubuntu use this new ESP (eg via Boot-Repair --> Recommended Repair).

The step 3) here may not be be correct. You will have to go into advanced options and find the tab that has an option of selecting which partition to install grub to. http://i.imgur.com/7iCLgni.png Choose the fat32 partition you just created and flagged as boot in Gparted here.

edit: I'm about to head out soon. If you have trouble with these above steps make a new thread, Link back to my comment here and ask people for help following the steps above. Hopefully this will allow boot repair to install grub onto that partition and then it should boot.

Edit2: you should Find partition on top of the Gparted menu and choose new. Remember to remove the boot flag from the current esp partition.