failed to load grub during installation. THis occured with Xubuntu and ubuntu. Was previously OK Xubuntu.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Happens during installation of Xubuntu or Ubuntu 18.4.1. Message is "Executing 'grub-install/
changing to sda1, sdb and sdb1 also failed.
This machine previously had XUbuntu running happily.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Thu Sep 6 13:29:59 2018
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
My machine was effectively incapacitated during upgrade because removal of packages made my software unuseable. I thought I could fix this with a clean install. My computer is now dead.