[quantal] Ubiquity fails to install grub --> no access to Ubuntu after install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Firstly, excuse my bad english :)
INITIAL SITUATION:
I was trying to install Ubuntu on an Asus Vintage V7 - P8H61E. But couldn't. Finally I managed installing Fedora 17. There I booted on a LIVE USB with Quantal 64bits (because I wasn't able to boot on a LIVE with any other Ubuntu older than Quantal) and managed to get a boot-info : http://
Then I booted again on a LIVE session (legacy-mode) on the same key, and began the installation of Quantal. I went through the manual installation ("Somethingelse") with these partitions :
/, swap and /home.
BUG ENCOUNTERED:
I choose to install the bootloader on /dev/sda1 which is the root partition. The installation went on.
When the install-program was configuring grub-pc, I got this message :
"The grub's installation failed. Sorry, something went wrong. Installing the grub-pc wasn't possible at the indicated place. What do you want to do ? choose another disk where to install the grub-pc ?"
There were different choices : /dev/sda, /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3
I chose /dev/sda, but got the same error message. The same with /dev/sda3.
The other possibilities were :
To go on without installing any grub
To stop the installation.
I've chosen to go on without the grub. I was warned that I will have to install manually the grub-pc, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to start Ubuntu. I said Ok. The installation went on.
RESULTING SITUATION:
At reboot without liveUSB, no GRUB menu appeared, and no access to Ubuntu.
Then I reboot on a LIVE session, and manage to get another boot-info :
http://
WORKAROUND:
Then I started Boot-Repair again from liveUSB, and chose "Recommended repair" (which installed grub-pc into /dev/sda), which succeeded, and provided another boot-info :
http://
I rebooted without liveUSB, and succeeded accessing the installed Ubuntu.
FURTHER INFORMATIONS:
Then I tried to install the updates, but the update-manager stopped at "configuring the grub-pc". After a while, I wanted to quit the update-manager, but it didn't quit, it crashed.
I reboot on LIVE session, got another boot-info :
http://
I used boot-repair to... repair and get this boot-info :
http://
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 21 14:14:14 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120920)
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Ubiquity fails to install grub-pc + [quantal] Ubiquity fails to install grub-pc |
summary: |
- [quantal] Ubiquity fails to install grub-pc + [quantal] Ubiquity fails to install grub --> no access to Ubuntu after + install |
description: | updated |
The original tread about this, on the french ubuntu forum : forum.ubuntu- fr.org/ viewtopic. php?pid= 10836481# p10836481
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