grub fails to install during fresh install on a side partition
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
USB install aside of 16.04 is second (divided) partition, all ok but fails to install grub. Tried all 3 choices sda6 (usb, which boot fine BTW), 16.04, and some strange windows version, all fail equally.
Looks like a write problem like maybe it out grew expected space when stored
device is Lenevo ideaPad with Intel core i7 8GB ram, 1 terabyte HDD 2.5m cache, using amd64 download retrieved yesterday July 8
note 18.04 runs fine off the USB and 16.04 still boots (though it is no longer usable since an auto update cause the default key ring system to so relentlessly request a password that locks the screen while it waits so nothing else can be done at least from a keyboard) 16.04 ran fine for year till the update 2 or 3 weeks ago now) Just as an aside I never yet found out how to set the default key ring password. nothing I have seen on the web is current enough to be useful.
Tried this now several times. have take the time using the USB running version to mount the the 16.04 partition and copy the /home space to a terabyte usb drive so I can now step on the primary partition.
and try installing there. if that fails it will speak volumes.
Hope this helps
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: lib/partman/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Mon Jul 9 14:56:48 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → New |
just thank you for the efforts you folks put in on this great product!