[Bug 1560294] [NEW] Installing Ubuntu for the first time. Created the bios boot area. On disk it was showing size as 16 MB, but during creation the selction indow showed it as 17 MB. While installing the bios boot, some error occured. Hence rporting the issue.

[Rajeev Arora]

Public bug reported:

I have downloaded the latest beta version of Ubuntu Mate 16.04.

Created a USB bootable for installation as suggested on your website.

In BIOS, I had to select the legacy support (with legacy boot as he
first boot option), as the USB was not otherwise recognized. I am using
the same USB stick, which I used to install Windows 10 on this machine.
That time the USB got recognized easily.

Created /boot of 350 MB, swap of 10240 MB and around 240 GB of / (root).
Later on I was informed to have at least 1 MB assigned for bios boot. I
had an already existing partion of 16 MB, which I selected for it.

Installation failed because of some issue with bios boot. I do not want
to lose my windows and hence terminating installation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.46 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-7.22-generic 4.4.2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.367
Date: Tue Mar 22 07:51:28 2016
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160224)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubiquity-2.21.46 ubuntu-mate xenial

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Title:
  Installing Ubuntu for the first time. Created the bios boot area. On
  disk it was showing size as 16 MB, but during creation the selction
  indow showed it as 17 MB. While installing the bios boot, some error
  occured. Hence rporting the issue.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have downloaded the latest beta version of Ubuntu Mate 16.04.

  Created a USB bootable for installation as suggested on your website.

  In BIOS, I had to select the legacy support (with legacy boot as he
  first boot option), as the USB was not otherwise recognized. I am
  using the same USB stick, which I used to install Windows 10 on this
  machine. That time the USB got recognized easily.

  Created /boot of 350 MB, swap of 10240 MB and around 240 GB of /
  (root). Later on I was informed to have at least 1 MB assigned for
  bios boot. I had an already existing partion of 16 MB, which I
  selected for it.

  Installation failed because of some issue with bios boot. I do not
  want to lose my windows and hence terminating installation.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.46 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-7.22-generic 4.4.2
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-7-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.367
  Date: Tue Mar 22 07:51:28 2016
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160224)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_IN
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_IN
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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