Comment 0 for bug 1539720

Trying to deploy Precise on a server in UEFI mode and it fails because curtin is looking for sda1 and there's not a sda1. There is a sda-part1 however.

mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
Creating new GPT entries.
The operation has completed successfully.
mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
The operation has completed successfully.
The operation has completed successfully.
An error occured handling 'sda-part1_format': ProcessExecutionError - Unexpected error while running command.
Command: ['mkfs.fat', '-F', '32', '-n', 'efi', '/dev/sda1']
Exit code: -
Reason: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Stdout: ''
Stderr: ''
Unexpected error while running command.
Command: ['mkfs.fat', '-F', '32', '-n', 'efi', '/dev/sda1']
Exit code: -
Reason: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Stdout: ''
Stderr: ''
Installation failed with exception: Unexpected error while running command.
Command: ['curtin', 'block-meta', 'custom']
Exit code: 3
Reason: -
Stdout: "mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically\nCreating new GPT entries.\nThe operation has completed successfully.\nmdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically\nThe operation has completed successfully.\nThe operation has completed successfully.\nAn error occured handling 'sda-part1_format': ProcessExecutionError - Unexpected error while running command.\nCommand: ['mkfs.fat', '-F', '32', '-n', 'efi', '/dev/sda1']\nExit code: -\nReason: [Errno 2] No such file or directory\nStdout: ''\nStderr: ''\nUnexpected error while running command.\nCommand: ['mkfs.fat', '-F', '32', '-n', 'efi', '/dev/sda1']\nExit code: -\nReason: [Errno 2] No such file or directory\nStdout: ''\nStderr: ''\n"
Stderr: ''

File systems

NameSizeMountpointFile system
sda-part1 536.9 MB /boot/efi fat32
sda-part2 298.5 GB / ext4
Available disks and partitions

Name Model Serial BootSizeDevice TypeFile systemTags
 899.0 GB Physical rotary
Used disks and partitions

Name Model Serial BootDevice typeUsed for
sda Physical GPT partitioned with 2 partitions
sda-part1 Partition fat32 formatted filesystem mounted at /boot/efi
sda-part2 Partition ext4 formatted filesystem mounted at /