installer crashes if you don't create a /boot partition
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
i created a logical partition for swap and one for / using btrfs (both in the same extended partition). this is on a macbook pro retina 15.4". i am booting using rEFIt off a usb drive that contains the installer that has been "converted to support efi". /dev/sda is a GPT partition, and it contains osx. the installer could not install grub onto that partition and rightly so (it would just mess up mac os). suggested fix: detect this situation and require a /boot partition.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity 2.12.16
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.328
Date: Sun Feb 24 18:14:39 2013
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64+mac (20121017.3)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.