[Bug 1749228] Re: Installing from sd card fails on some hardware

[Jamie Bennett]

Another data point, to be able to boot the SD Card you need to press f12
for the boot screen during start-up and select legacy boot: sd card.

SD Card is a generic 16GB card from Amazon that came part of a package
with a Raspberry Pi3 (branded with a Raspberry Pi logo). This (micro)SD
card is housed in an adapter (also Raspberry Pi branded).

Finally, this happened whilst trying to install Bionic.

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Title:
  Installing from sd card fails on some hardware

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I can't reproduce this on my Dell Inspiron 11, but it does happen on a
  Dell XPS13.

  1. Download Ubuntu and write it to an SD Card
    Note: The SD Card was written using Etcher from a Mac - maybe that has an effect?
  2. Boot from the SD Card and do a default install (UEFI is on)
  3. When trying to write grub to the boot partition grub-installer chooses to write to /dev/mmcblk0 instead of /dev/sda and fails.

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