[Bug 1885414] Re: on flavours ubiquity: bootloader failed on /dev/vda

[Jags Desai]

Bootloader installation still fails with Aug 06, 2020 ISO of Ubuntu MATE
Groovy 20.10 in a VirtualBox VM.

Host OS: Ubuntu MATE 20.04
VirtualBox Version: VirtualBox-6.1.97-139689-Linux_amd64

Right when I tried to partition manually there were warnings that I
never saw up until Ubuntu MATE Focal 20.04

Warning #1:
"No EFI System Partition was found. This system will likely not be able to boot successfully, and the installation process may fail. Please go back and add an EFI System Partition, or continue at your own risk".

and upon clicking "Continue", installer displayed:

Warning #2:
"The partition table format in use on your disks normally requires you to create a separate partition for boot loader code. This partition should be marked as a "Reserved BIOS boot area" and should be at leat 1 MB in size. Note that thi is not the same as a partition mounted on /boot.

If you do not go back to the partitioning menu and correct this error,
boot loader installation may fail later, although it may still be
possible to install the boot loader to a partition".


I have submitted 2 similar bug reports on July 06, and Aug 01, bug report #1886580 and #1889989.

Today, I could not submit bug report from within the installation as
Apport kept displaying a message, "Collecting problem information". I
waited for 20+ minutes but it did not bring a window from where I can
submit a bug report.

Here's Imgur album with 7 screenshots:

https://imgur.com/a/fgaxBoc

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Title:
  on flavours ubiquity: bootloader failed on /dev/vda

Status in kubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-budgie-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in ubuntu-mate-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntukylin-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in kubuntu-meta source package in Groovy:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity source package in Groovy:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-budgie-meta source package in Groovy:
  Fix Committed
Status in ubuntu-mate-meta source package in Groovy:
  Fix Released
Status in ubuntukylin-meta source package in Groovy:
  Confirmed
Status in xubuntu-meta source package in Groovy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Testing the 2020-06-28 ubuntu-mate iso on QEMU (QuickEMU)
  Selected Normal and 3rd party installation.
  Installation looked to be going fine until it got to grub2 installation part
  Came up with the following error:

  https://i.imgur.com/IanRMYk.jpg

  Had to do screenshot as apport is crashing and unable to submit bug
  via ubuntu-bug:

  https://i.imgur.com/dqYcKqb.png

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