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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.
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.
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[–] Disappointed 0 points 1 point 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
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.