[Bug 1774532] Re: fresh install of 18.04 grub fails to install

[Phillip Susi]

The bios_grub partition is needed to boot in bios mode when your disk is
partitioned with GPT instead of MBR.  When you choose to manually
partition the disk, it is on you to do it correctly.


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

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Title:
  fresh install of 18.04 grub fails to install

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Trying to do a fresh install. The disk was partitioned with 40GB /
  16GB swap and 80 GB /home

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  Date: Thu May 31 18:25:02 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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