Ubuntu
grub-installer package

grub cannot be installed

Bug #1762032 reported by Aayush Kapoor on 2018-04-07

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This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub-installer (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I tried installing Ubuntu 18.04 Beta 2 but grub2 installation failed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.392
Date: Sat Apr 7 23:17:42 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Beta amd64 (20180404)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Aayush Kapoor (xeoneux) wrote on 2018-04-07:

#1

Casper.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (96 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (4.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (331.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (6.5 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-04-07:

#2

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote on 2018-05-23:

#3

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted the installer in EFI mode. A warning message prompted you that this could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install instead, but you chose not to. You either need to perform the bios mode install, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system partition to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you choose the "use entire disk" guided install option.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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ench0 (alexander-enchevich) wrote on 2020-01-31:

#4

I created a EFI system partition but still got this bug. Installation was a fresh xubuntu 18.04 (not upgrade). I have a separate /boot partition.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → New

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-01-31:

#5

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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