ESP on install medium automatically configured as ESP for install, failing install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Impish |
Won't Fix
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug report is a duplicated of bug #1902269 performed with Ubuntu 20.10.
Basically installation fail when the installer doesn't find an EFI (ESR) partition on computers with legacy BIOS.
This time I have used Ubuntu 21.04 also to test the new version of Ubiquity package (21.04.15) which, as reported here: https:/
Unfortunately I'm still experiencing the same problem.
#### Partition details:
- msdos partition table
- 4 primary partitions, all ext4
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Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda4: msdos
Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"
Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: Installazione per la piattaforma x86_64-efi.
Apr 17 00:19:07 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: errore: impossibile copiare "/usr/lib/
Apr 17 00:19:07 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"' failed.
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: ubiquity 21.04.15
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CasperVersion: 1.461
Date: Sat Apr 17 02:20:20 2021
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210416)
RebootRequiredPkgs:
linux-
linux-base
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
summary: |
- Ubiquity Ubuntu 21.04 install fail on legacy bios + ESP on install medium automatically configured as ESP for install, + failing inst all |
summary: |
ESP on install medium automatically configured as ESP for install, - failing inst all + failing install |
tags: | added: rls-ii-incoming |
tags: | added: fr-1323 |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | removed: rls-ii-incoming |
Also related (hirsute) /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ ubiquity/ +bug/1907180 /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ ubiquity/ +bug/1923134 /bugs.launchpad .net/ubuntu/ +source/ ubiquity/ +bug/1923699
- https:/
- https:/
- https:/
Note: on 1923134 I did the following
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ df -h |grep target
/dev/sda1 658G 328G 297G 53% /target
/dev/sdb2 4.9M 4.9M 2.0K 100% /target/boot/efi
so it looks like grub is being written to the installation media (not sda) as per pasted messages from ubiquity syslog