[Bug 1901137] Re: UEFI on Legacy - grub-install fails due to no space left on ESP

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

Ubiquity tries to re-use ESP if possible.

Given that we booted in Bios mode, I wonder, if ubiquity missdetects the
ESP on the usb/cdrom that installer was booted from, as the one that can
be reused.... when it really can't.

Whilst looking through the logs, it is not obvious to me, if a sane ESP
is present on the target disks, and is usable. Or not.

Not sure which install method is being used, and if everyone is trying
to resize / use_free or wiping full disks.

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Title:
  UEFI on Legacy - grub-install fails due to no space left on ESP

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  The system has PCLinuxOS on sda1 and sda2 Linux Mint 20 on sda9 and
  sda10 Windows 7 on sdb1 Windows 10 on sdb2

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
  Package: ubiquity 20.10.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-25.26-generic 5.8.14
  Uname: Linux 5.8.0-25-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.455
  Date: Fri Oct 23 12:26:45 2020
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
  RebootRequiredPkgs:
   linux-image-5.8.0-25-generic
   linux-base
   linux-base
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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