manual partitioner: /dev/sdb (installation media) selected by default as device for boot loader installation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Precise |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson | ||
Quantal |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Colin Watson |
Bug Description
[Impact] The selected boot device in ubiquity's manual partitioner is sometimes wrong.
[Test Case] See comment #11 for a VM setup that reproduces this bug.
[Regression Potential] This is hairy code that has failed a number of times in the past, so it's worth checking that a few other setups still behave reasonably. It probably still won't be right in all cases (see e.g. bug 1066173 which I think precise may suffer from); this specifically addresses the case when installing from removable USB media onto a fixed disk, and ensuring that the boot loader defaults to the fixed disk.
== If you are affected by this bug ==
You can use Quantal beta or later images.
You can use Precise post 12.04.1 daily images.
Both are available from cdimages.ubuntu.com
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Precise Desktop 20120423
During a side by side installation with an existing Ubuntu Precise on the system, with the manual partitioner from a usb stick, the selected device for boot loader installation was set to /dev/sdb by default (installation media)
If the user doesn't pay attention to the selected value, the end of the installation will fail.
When grub fails to install on /dev/sdb, it shows a dialog to select another device. I choose /dev/sda, it installs without a failure but I'm dropped to a grub prompt on reboot.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Mon Apr 23 19:01:48 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64+mac (20120423)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
TERM=unknown
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
summary: |
- precise amd64+mac side by side install: grub installs on /dev/sdb - (installation media) + precise amd64+mac side by side install: grub tries to install on + /dev/sdb (installation media) |
summary: |
- precise amd64+mac side by side install: grub tries to install on - /dev/sdb (installation media) + manual partitioner: /dev/sdb (installation media) select by default as + device for boot loader installation |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- manual partitioner: /dev/sdb (installation media) select by default as + manual partitioner: /dev/sdb (installation media) selected by default as device for boot loader installation |
affects: | grub-installer (Ubuntu) → ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: rls-mgr-p-tracking |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: ubi-partman |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
milestone: | none → quantal-alpha-1 |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu Installer Team (ubuntu-installer) |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
milestone: | quantal-alpha-1 → quantal-alpha-2 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
milestone: | quantal-alpha-2 → quantal-alpha-3 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-12.04.2 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
assignee: | Stéphane Graber (stgraber) → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
assignee: | nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson) |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise): | |
status: | Fix Committed → In Progress |
description: | updated |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here: iso.qa. ubuntu. com/qatracker/ reports/ bugs/987418
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