Installation failed late because of UEFI partition was not created during manual disk set up
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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partman-efi (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Fresh installation of Ubuntu 17.10.1. Apparently this new motherboard is configured in UEFI mode. Because wanting total control of the partitioning schema used, I chose manual partitioning in the beginning of the installation. When installing "grub-uefi-
So I see two issues here:
1. abrupt crash of the installer
2. not warning of the missing UEFI partition before accepting the manually created partition table (in an earlier installation attempt there was a warning about swap not being encrypted and subsequent refusal to continue the installation, meaning there seems to be some other checks of similar nature in place).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ubiquity 17.10.10 [modified: lib/partman/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.387
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jan 15 21:03:40 2018
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
affects: | ubiquity (Ubuntu) → partman-efi (Ubuntu) |
Calling 'apt-install grub-efi- amd64-signed' failed