[Bug 1548134] Re: Os installation fails: grub failed to install on /dev/sda

Phillip Susi phillsusi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 18:19:22 UTC 2016


*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1059827 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059827

Your disk was partitioned using an ancient partitioning tool that did
not leave enough room before the start of the first partition to install
grub when using btrfs as a root filesystem.  You will need to re-
partition the disk which should not start the first partition until the
1 mb mark, leaving plenty of room for grub.


** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1059827
   Non trivial grub2 installs no longer fit in small embed areas

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Title:
  Os installation fails: grub failed to install on /dev/sda

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I tried installing a daily build of 16.04. Fatal error during
  installation: grub failed to install on /dev/sda.

  I used custom partition setup to format an existing partition as /
  (btrfs) and mounting another existing partition as /home (ext4). I've
  never tried btrfs as a root filesystem before, but I was feeling
  adventurous. The installer gave me no indication that there may be
  problems with btrfs root filesystems, but I'll try again with / as
  ext4.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.44 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.367
  Date: Sun Feb 21 18:36:33 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160219)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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