Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Installer does not cotinue if grub-install failed
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Bug Description
Hi,
the installer for Ubuntu desktop is unclear to me. Few comments from a Gentoo user:
1. The disk partitioning tool is eager to partition a whole disk and although there was a way to manually create partitions it does not started say gparted.
2. The toosl failed to realzie there are 4 partitions on /dev/nvme0n1 with Win11 already and it concluded there is no existing OS on the disk already. Wrong.
3. There is too easily accessible button "Create new partition table" which was NOT what I wanted. I wanted to create an additional partition. I almost zapped my existing one. Why isn't there a button in the main GUI to create a partition entry.
4. Why isn't there a way to start xterm or gdisk directly at least? Baaah, not even from the Menu bar above the screen there is NO way to start xterm.
5. I did ctrl+alt+F2 but hey, I cannot login. Although the installer asked me for a username and passphrase evidently it did NOT apply them yet to the running instance. Too bad. How am I supposed to resulve eventual issues? I was NOT explicitly told by the installer but I assume root's password is autoscrambled.
6. My real issue is that "Bootloader install failed". I have three options:
A. Choose a different device to install the bootloader on [None of the device available I would to touch, so I inserted an SD card reader with some SD card in it, to make the Installer happy. But the device is not listed. Is the listing updated? Maybe scsi-rescan would help here?]
B. Continue without a bootloader. [I would happily do but the OK button does not work so I am stuck. Yes, I can boot the OS with supergrub, etc. I just want the installer to finish its work and ideally, give me a shell before rebooting.]
C. Cancel installation [obviously pretty useless option. Please give me a shell, ideally a few xterms so I can poke around] [Baaah, picking this option and clicking OK does nothing too].
Even the ower button shows only Suspend, will do hard reset instead.
7. Finally a few comments. It is difficult to find out which Ubuntu/Debian/Arch distribution or flavor uses Wayland by default, which by default allows me to install over an mdraid device housing a LUKS partition. Or which offer a VeraCrypt installation out of the box. Certainly these days one cares more about modern stuff like password wallets, KDE connect compatibility to seamlessly integrate Linux with an Android phone. Please try to update the Download listings emphasizing dozens of flavors you have and try to make it clear, what is the real difference. All of them have Libreoffice nad Firefox and specifying the WM does not examplain much. Moreover it seems the Docs are incorrect stating Wayland will be used in Future releases but in real it seems it is on by default already in 22.04. Ideally I would go for Xfce4 but the KDE integrations are tempting. But in contrary it seems Kubuntu does not support Wayland yet so that is out of the question.
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| Martin Mokrejs (mmokrejs-t) wrote | #1 |
The EF00 partition was not formatted with any filesystem, probably that was the reason why grub-install failed. The Installer did not allow me to select the filesystem. Some sanity check is missing. Why 0700 was not used? It works for me on a dual-boot system elsewhere.