[Bug 1675169] Re: Poor detection of proper boot device...

[Phillip Susi]

You will need to choose an appropriate drive to install grub to, and if
it is partitioned using GPT and you are booting with BIOS instead of
EFI, you will need to create a 1 mb bios_grub partition on it.


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

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Title:
  Poor detection of proper boot device...

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  ... when it isn't sda. Breaks entire VERY LONG installation process
  with a full crash. Have to start over.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376.2
  Date: Wed Mar 22 13:57:32 2017
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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