Installing 12.04 with / on a btrfs partition crashes the GRUB setup
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I tried to Install 12.04 next to a Win7.
partitions are :
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 498014 248976 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 499712 2035711 768000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 2035712 245216159 121590224 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 245217278 488396799 121589761 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 245217280 486443007 120612864 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 486445056 488396799 975872 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda5 : btrfs -> /
/dev/sda6 : swap
Everything goes right during installation except the final step when I get the message that GRUB could not be installed on disk /dev/sda.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
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: Thu Apr 26 14:47:15 2012
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=unknown
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
FYI : I tried exactly the same install with /boot on an ext4 ... and it worked.