Ubiquity placed grubx64.efi on USB disk

[YannUbuntu]

Computer with EFI boot

Before installing Ubuntu:
- sda with 3 primary partitions occupied by Windows
- sdb (1Go USB disk)

Here is the BootInfo after installing 11.10 : http://paste.ubuntu.com/884745

As you can see, Ubiquity installed Ubuntu on the 4th primary partition (used as extended), but placed the /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi on sdb.

Problem: when the USB key is disconnected, Ubuntu will not boot.

If this behavior cannot be avoid (i guess /efi must be on the 1st primary partition of any disk), i suggest Ubiquity should at least warn the user that Ubuntu won't boot if the USB key is disconnected.

Hope this helps.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Did the EFI System Partition on /dev/sdb1 exist before the install? If not, it must have been created using manual partitioning, which is odd if it wasn't intended to be used.

Installer logs (syslog and partman) would help.

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

> Did the EFI System Partition on /dev/sdb1 exist before the install?

I don't think so, because the user did not know what EFI is.

> Installer logs (syslog and partman) would help.

Unfortunately i can't provide them, because the user reinstalled (after disconnecting the USB key, and formating sda4,5,6,7), which led to the situation described in Bug#959446 .

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

Phillip, this bug is not a duplicate of bug #1302418.

#956412 is when ESP on USB.
 #1302418 is when no ESP at all.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

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In that case, the expired status was correct as the required
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On 2/6/2015 7:13 PM, YannUbuntu wrote:
> Phillip, this bug is not a duplicate of bug #1302418.
>
> #956412 is when ESP on USB. #1302418 is when no ESP at all.

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