[Bug 1637690] Re: Accidental deletion of ubuntu partition earlier.

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Thu Nov 10 16:26:21 UTC 2016


You are trying to install to a disk that has been partitioned by Windows
as a "dynamic disk" and this is unsupported.  You will need to have
Windows convert it back to a basic disk, or let Ubuntu format the whole
disk.


** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Accidental deletion of ubuntu partition earlier.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Accidental deletion of ubuntu partition earlier. Not able to re-
  install ubuntu grub error. "executing grub-insltall/dev/sda failed"

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Sat Oct 29 09:09:58 2016
  InstallCmdLine: initrd=/casper/initrd.lz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity  quiet splash --- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  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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