Maverick Alpha 2 Grub "No Partition Found"

Bug #602514 reported by jerrylamos
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Two hard drives installed, sda as reported by install and linux is 82 GB IDE. sdb is 120 GB sata.
Alpha 1 installs O.K.
Alpha 2, Grub can't find the UUID as installed on sda because it only looks at sdb.
Pretty hard for me to get printed evidence of this since Grub doesn't even find the initial screen, however I do see:

fstab is in error since in fact install was on sda8 not sdb8:
"# / was on /dev/sdb8 during installation
UUID=0672c821-3a3b-4b70-aab9-8e967a9a0c60 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0"

while in fact the install was on partition sda8:
fdisk -l says:
Disk /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00025e92

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1274 10233373+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1275 1516 1943865 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 1517 9820 66701849+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1517 5340 30716248+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 5341 8991 29326626 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9757 9820 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 8992 9756 6144831 83 Linux < installed here

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1549f232

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 14593 117218241 83 Linux < that's a Karmic whole disk

Alpha 2 install from CD can't even boot since Grub can't find the UUID by looking on the wrong drive, so I had to install Alpha 1 CD and update to current.

Jerry

Revision history for this message
Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 602514

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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