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Jan Rathmann (kaiserclaudius) wrote : Installation of Ubuntu Groovy in VirtualBox with manual partitioning fails on 'grub-install /dev/sda'

Hello,

trying to install current daily-live images of Groovy in VirtualBox fails for me when I'm using manual partitioning.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Partition layout I have used in VirtualBox:
 * Partition table: MBR
 * A single primary ext4 partition (/dev/sda1) using up the entire virtual harddisk with 1 MB free space before start of the partition
2. Boot current Groovy daily-live image, click on "Install Ubuntu"
3. Choose "Something else" (manual partitioning)
4. Select /dev/sda1 as target for '/', check "format partition".
5. Ignore warning about missing EFI system partition.

Result:

The installation proceeds until GRUB is about to be installed.
Then an error dialog appears: "Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error." (screenshot attached).
If I click 'Ok', after a moment Ubiquity nevertheless shows the usual dialog saying "Installation is complete. Please restart." The only option the dialog offered was to click on "Restart now".
After that, booting the failed installation succeeds, but it is obvious that Ubiquity couldn't complete its job: Packages like ubiquity itself, which usually get purged from the fresh system at the end of a successful installation, are still installed. There is also a pop-up in gnome-shell showing an error regarding package management (screenshot attached, not sure if this is related to the failed install).

To send this report, I was running 'sudo ubuntu-bug ubiquity' on the "failed", but nevertheless booting fresh installation.

Kind regards, Jan

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubiquity 20.10.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu45
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Wed Sep 2 16:55:14 2020
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-42-generic root=UUID=6ba06971-16c7-4df6-afcc-3bc101cba9a5 ro quiet splash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)