Installation fails when installing GRUB to disk
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When installing Ubuntu 14.04 on my machine, the installation fails at the step where GRUB is installed onto the disk. I got a message saying something like:
"Installation of GRUB to disk /dev/sdd failed. This is a fatal error".
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.17.12 [modified: lib/partman/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.339
Date: Wed Apr 9 16:52:27 2014
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140409)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
| Rune K. Svendsen (runeks) wrote | #1 |
| Rune K. Svendsen (runeks) wrote | #2 |
| Rune K. Svendsen (runeks) wrote | #3 |
I was able to fix this issue the following way.
Apparently, my motherboard (ASUS M5A97 EVO R2.0) can boot a USB drive in two ways:
1) using UEFI
2) using the standard way (BIOS?)
I originally booted the Ubuntu 14.04 USB installation drive using UEFI (I didn't realize there would be a difference), and this caused the installation of GRUB to fail at the end of the installation step, and being met with a GRUB prompt when booting the system after installation. Mind you, I'm not using UEFI to boot the installed system (as far as I can tell). Perhaps this is the reason it didn't work.
After realizing this, I booted the Ubuntu 14.04 installation USB stick using the regular BIOS (not UEFI), and everything proceeded without problems, and I'm writing this from my newly installed Ubuntu 14.04 system.