Grub Failed to Install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I tried installing Xubuntu over an existing Xubuntu install. By default it tried to install grub to SDA, even though I need it installed on SDE. When I tried selecting SDE when it crashed, it refused to install to SDE either.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: ubiquity 16.10.14 [modified: lib/partman/
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.379
Date: Sun Dec 11 13:50:22 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=unknown
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Your disk has GPT as partition table and does not contain a "bios_grub" -partition to install Grub