[Bug 1588338] Re: Ubiquity fails to install on Mac Mini 2006

[gmorehou]

This is happening to me in the Lubuntu 16.04 install.

I'm installing from a USB stick. It's a 2008 Macbook with an aftermarket
SSD that was wiped - not even a partition table. The "erase disk and
install ubuntu" installation method gets all the way past partitioning
and copying files, then fails with "unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda"
as the dialog title, text is "Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed.
This is a fatal error."

When running 'sudo grub-install /dev/sda' from a terminal window, the
error is thus:

    Installing for i386-pc platform.
    grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/cow'.

To add insult to injury, the following dialog is broken; see #1608006.

I haven't successfully gotten grub installed yet.

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Title:
  Ubiquity fails to install on Mac Mini 2006

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have a Mac Mini 2006. This model supports 64-bit and I had
  succesfully installed Lubuntu 15.04 64-bit before, but it has only 1GB
  of RAM. So I want to wipe my disk and clean install Lubuntu 16.04
  (32-bit) on it, on UEFI mode, but after copying all the files,
  Ubiquity complains about grub-efi-ia32 failing to install.

  I thought installation failed because Ubiquity closed. But the system
  was properly installed, only missing the bootloader. Had to load grub
  from a pendrive, boot the installed system from command line and
  install grub-efi-ia32, then it worked.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Thu Jun  2 09:06:27 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity iso-scan/filename= noquiet nosplash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20160420.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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