Ubuntu
grub-installer package

installation aborts after failed grub installation

Bug #1621423 reported by Christos Alexiou
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Installation process of Ubuntu 14.04 goes smoothly until the last step of installing the GRUB bootloader onto the disk. Then the error message "failed to install grub on /target/" appears and the installation crashes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.8.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-36.42~14.04.1-generic 4.2.8-ckt8
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.20
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Thu Sep 8 13:53:52 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/backbox.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: BackBox Linux 4.6 - Release amd64
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Christos Alexiou (pcnoic) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

BackBox is not an official Ubuntu flavor and so is not supported here.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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