[Bug 1852333] Re: 19.10 Grub install fail on Alienware Steammachine R2

[Sønke Lorenzen]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1851560 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1851560

I then installed grub manually:

ubuntu at ubuntu:/$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt
ubuntu at ubuntu:/$ sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
ubuntu at ubuntu:/$ sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
ubuntu at ubuntu:/$ sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
ubuntu at ubuntu:/$ sudo chroot /mnt
root at ubuntu:/# sudo update-grub
sudo: unable to resolve host ubuntu: Temporary failure in name resolution
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-19-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-19-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-18-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-18-generic
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check your device.map.
Found SteamOS 2.0 (2.0) on /dev/sda3
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done


several minutes went before the line "grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check your device.map." appeared and the command finished. /dev/sdb1 is the usb stick with the installer.

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Title:
  19.10 Grub install fail on Alienware Steammachine R2

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I did a new install of 19.10 on an Alienware Steammachine R2 along
  SteamOS 2.0 and got a grub install error.

  The error message was

  Executing 'grub-install /dev/nvme0n1' failed.
  This is a fatal error.

  The installation was to a nvme where I had left around 140GB unused
  partition space, which the installer chose correctly when I chose
  install along side SteamOS.

  I started the installer directly from the grub menu. I then selected
  Normal Installation, Download updates and install third party
  software.

  This was with a fresh downloaded installer today, I reported a
  previously bug in 1851560 where I used the beta installer from
  September 26 and that time I started Ubuntu first without installing
  and started the installer from the desktop. With the same result.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
  Package: ubiquity 19.10.21
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-18.19-generic 5.3.1
  Uname: Linux 5.3.0-18-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.427
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Nov 12 20:53:22 2019
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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