Bootloader install failed

[Leó Kolbeinsson]

Installing Xubuntu Groovy daily iso 20201003

Booting in BIOS mode on Lenovo V14 IIL i3-1005G1 256 SSD

Bootloader install failed with following message:

Sorry,an error occurred and it was not possible to install the boot loader at the specified location.
How would you like to proceed -

3 choices offered - selected cancel the installation --- the device was /dev/nvme0n1 ssd disk

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubiquity 20.10.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-20.21-generic 5.8.10
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu48
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.452
Date: Sat Oct 3 09:43:25 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Beta amd64 (20201003)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
RebootRequiredPkgs:
 linux-image-5.8.0-20-generic
 linux-base
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1898342

[Chris Guiver (guiverc)]

Possible duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1897991

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

why are you booting in bios mode, instead of uefi?

grub is not big enough to install onto the whole drive (/dev/nvme0n1) and should be installed into grub partition /dev/nvme0n1p1 no?

[Leó Kolbeinsson (leok)]

@xnox Dimitri

When testing the daily ISO´s on the Testing tracker site - QA http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker
all boot modes are tested.

[Leó Kolbeinsson (leok)]

@xnox Dimitri John Ledkov

I can confirm that this no longer occurs on Lenovo V14 IIL after the official release of Xubuntu 20.10. The original bug report was for the beta daily of 20201003.