Ubuntu xenial installer crashes when grub installation failed
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Ubuntu Xenial installer crashes when grub-installer failed. Writing grub to sda (and after that every sdX) failed, and when proceeding without installing the grub, installer crashes.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Tue May 17 17:05:03 2016
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| Janne Savikko (jsavikko) wrote | #1 |
| Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
You are attempting to install in bios mode to a disk that is partitioned using GPT. You either need to create a 1 mb bios_grub partition, install in EFI mode instead ( and create an EFI system partition ), or reformat the disk and use MBR instead of GPT.