Installer should not default to installing grub on /dev/mmcblk0
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Installing ubuntu alongside windows 10 and I had an SD card in my PC. It wouldn't boot into ubuntu on restart because it tried to install grub on mmcblk0 instead of the windows boot partition
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.8.13
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340.2
Date: Mon Oct 31 20:53:15 2016
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20160803)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
affects: | grub-installer (Ubuntu) → ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
summary: |
- It tried to install grub on my memory card rather than over the windows - bootloader + Installer should not default to installing grub on /dev/mmcblk0 |
This bug, or one like it, is still present in 17.10. Trying to install Ubuntu with an SD card in the drive results in the installer trying to install grub on the sd card and failing:
"Executing 'grub-install /dev/mmcblk0' failed. This is a fatal error"
Using the custom partitioning tool confirms that grub is trying to be installed on the sd card.