Ubuntu
grub-installer package

  1. Bug #1023064
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1023064

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Damiön la Bagh (kat-amsterdam) wrote :

No, Phillip, you are not up to date in your filesystem technologies.

I have 5 machines running with btrfs on raw disks with no partions and no partition tables that boot Ubuntu just fine (some legacy bios and other UEFI). As designed by the btrfs team (borrowed from the ZFS filesystem methodology)

The trick is to install grub to /@/boot

using this command
mount /dev/sda /mnt
grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/@/boot /dev/sda

If these two steps would be loaded into the Ubuntu Installer then there would be no problems installing and booting btrfs raw disks.