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

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Please attach the logs from the installer once the installation finishes
or crashes. It can be found in /var/log/syslog from the live session.

EFI or not probably should not matter here if the install fails in the
first place; especially since you're installing from an SD card booted
in legacy mode (so, not EFI, and whether EFI is enabled or not depends
on how you answer the prompt to "force EFI installation").

I do remember seeing an issue with the partition number parsing before,
so I'll look in up in past commits to see if we might have regressed
there.

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

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Title:
  Installing from sd card fails on some hardware

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

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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