Elementary OS Installer failed to install its bootloader (GRUB) to any available drive/partition

[Kumar Abhishek]

Hi

The elementary OS 0.3.1 fails to install the GRUB on a physical machine as well as Virtual Machine(VirtualBox).

Below is the error message :

The 'grub-pc' package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB
boot loader, the installed system will not boot.

Attaching the screenshot.

Thanks & Regards
Kumar Abhishek

[Kumar Abhishek (mail-kumar-2309)]

Hi

Isn't anybody looking into the same, or am I the only person to encounter this issue?

Regards
Kumar Abhishek

[Kumar Abhishek (mail-kumar-2309)]

Hi

Isn't anybody looking into the same, or am I the only person to encounter this issue?

Regards
Kumar Abhishek

[Kumar Abhishek (mail-kumar-2309)]

Is anyone even listening..?

[Kumar Abhishek (mail-kumar-2309)]

Hi All

Got a workaround for the issue after a bit of searching about the issue, over the internet..
The system needs to stay connected to the INTERNET during installation, in order to successfully install the 'grub-pc' package into /target/.

I've tried and installed the OS successfully onto a virtual machine.

Thanks & Regards
Kumar Abhishek

[Kumar Abhishek (mail-kumar-2309)]

But the issue still persists,if installing OS without connecting to the internet.

[Eshant (guptaeshant)]

Bug for clean install

[Eshant (guptaeshant)]

Bug for clean non-VM install as well

[Eshant (guptaeshant)]

Boot-repair doesn't work
update-grub doesn't work from 0.3 live cd either

[Fabian Thoma (fabianthoma)]

From new reports this is also happening on 0.3.2, so we need to make sure this is not happening on Loki as well.

[Saša Janiška (gour)]

After not having success installing elementaryos-0.3.2-stable-amd64.20151209.iso under virtualbox (Debian Sid machine), tried on my ThinkPad E125 netbook and had the same issue - installer was failing during Grub2 install phase.

I was using Wifi connection which worked fine (tried direct install and install via LiveCD), installer was able to properly detect EFI partition (I was even trying to remove some old entries with efibootmgr, but didn't help).

Tried with both 'default' partitioning scheme as well as the custom ones - using either / +swap or / + /home + swap, but without separate /boot and using different filesystems ext4/XFS.

The only 'workaround' was to install by creating msdos/BIOS partition layout since UEFI/GPT did not work.

Moreover, I almost gave up on evaluating eOS which is meant to be put on several machines of my close friends and/or relatives which sometimes have to struggle with other distros since I can't help them with neither Windows nor Mac OS X...fortunately, Fabian replied to my question in #elementary which is otherwise deadly silent...

Sincerely,
Gour

[Saša Janiška (gour)]

Hello,

here is the snippet from syslog after installation on my netbook failed:

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Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: The following extra packages will be installed:
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: efibootmgr grub-common grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub2-common
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: secureboot-db
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: Suggested packages:
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: multiboot-doc grub-emu xorriso desktop-base
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: The following NEW packages will be installed:
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: efibootmgr grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: secureboot-db
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: The following packages will be upgraded:
Apr 23 17:39:34 elementary ubiquity: grub-common grub2-common
Apr 23 17:39:35 elementary ubiquity: 2 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 197 not upgraded.
Apr 23 17:39:35 elementary ubiquity: Need to get 3641 kB/3672 kB of archives.
Apr 23 17:39:35 elementary ubiquity: After this operation, 6052 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Apr 23 17:39:35 elementary ubiquity: Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu/ trusty/main grub2-common amd64 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7+elementary10~ubuntu0.3.2.1 [501 kB]
Apr 23 17:39:36 elementary ubiquity: Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu/ trusty/main grub-common amd64 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7+elementary10~ubuntu0.3.2.1 [2199 kB]
Apr 23 17:39:40 elementary ubiquity: Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu/ trusty/main grub-efi-amd64-bin amd64 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7+elementary10~ubuntu0.3.2.1 [649 kB]
Apr 23 17:39:41 elementary ubiquity: Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu/ trusty/main grub-efi-amd64 amd64 2.02~beta2-9ubuntu1.7+elementary10~ubuntu0.3.2.1 [45,0 kB]
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity: Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/elementary-os/os-patches/ubuntu/ trusty/main grub-efi-amd64-signed amd64 1.34.8+elementary11~ubuntu0.3.2.1+2.02~beta2-9 [246 kB]
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity: Fetched 3641 kB in 7s (493 kB/s)
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity: E: Failed to fetch cdrom://elementary OS 0.3.2 _Freya_ - Stable amd64 (20151209)/pool/main/e/efibootmgr/efibootmgr_0.5.4-7ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb Hash Sum mismatch
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity:
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity: E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity: Reading package lists...
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity:
Apr 23 17:39:42 elementary ubiquity: Building dependency tree...
Apr 23 17:39:43 elementary ubiquity:
Apr 23 17:39:43 elementary ubiquity: Reading state information...
Apr 23 17:39:43 elementary ubiquity:
Apr 23 17:39:45 elementary ubiquity: The following extra packages will be installed:
Apr 23 17:39:45 elementary ubiquity: efibootmgr grub-common grub-efi-amd64-bin grub2-common secureboot-db shim
Apr 23 17:39:45 elementary ubiquity: Suggested packages:
Apr 23 17:39:45 elementary ubiquity: ...

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

This original bug report is actually a duplicate of a bug that was finally address in elementary OS Freya 0.3.2, the release was mostly based around it.

The issue reported in the above comment is about "efibootmgr_0.5.4-7ubuntu1.2_amd64.deb Hash Sum mismatch".

Multiple developers have tested this problem and are unable to reproduce it, efibootmgr installed successfully for testers. So the best guess is that the installation media used by the reporter was corrupt.

[Saša Janiška (gour)]

Hello,

How do you explain the fact that sha256sum is correct and I was not able to install elementaryOS even under vbox which does not use any media except the downloaded *.iso?

Sincerely,
Gour