Installing 20.10 from SD card on Dell 7390 Developers Edition Fails on Grub Install

Bug #1902438 reported by Matt
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Live booted from 20.10 installer on SD card on Dell 7390 Developers edition.

20.10 Install fails at grub install no mater which disk MBR install is set to (Error on Grub-install says insufficient space).

My hunch, but not a lot of evidence to prove it, is that it is trying to install MBR / grub on currently live-mounted SD card, and failing, despite confirming the MBR setting on the installer screen is set to internal drive multiple times and retrying.

(Note - I had a Previously working 20.04 install, so I don't think my EFI Partition is corrupt, and it has plenty of space).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubiquity 20.10.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-25.26-generic 5.8.14
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.455
Date: Sun Nov 1 06:27:23 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
RebootRequiredPkgs:
 linux-image-5.8.0-26-generic
 linux-base
 linux-image-5.8.0-25-generic
 linux-base
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Matt (mghemke) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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