Ubuntu
grub-installer package

  1. Bug #1030772
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1030772

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aimwin (aim-mail) wrote :

From
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/btrfs
............... You must install it to either the parent (sda rather than sda1; MBR/Reserved Sectors) 'OR' use a dedicated /boot partition as described in the forum post below.
When installing Ubuntu in one large btrfs-Partition without an extra boot-partition, take care to keep about 1 Mib space free at the beginning of the disk. When there is not this space, the installer fails at the end when trying to install Grub! ............

And
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ubuntu_support
......long and involve good understanding of btrf. and how to........
That is not an easy normal installation of ext4... I just learn that today after reading many more info on how to btrf?

Can someone confirm the above issue.

That I am too naive to just select the btrf in replacement of ext4, during the normal installation.

Because if we want to use btrf we need to follow these instructions in
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ubuntu_support

or it is another bug in the 12.04.1 installation programs?