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

[KLA Khan]

I have only the existing partitions ; since I wanted a fresh install and
therefore both the / and /home partitions were formatted.
I am not able to follow the "No space in ESP"  since I never needed to know
about it.

I decided to test with another distro and I could succeed with no issues
(Fedora Live Station 30) and I am running all without any issue coming up
so far (touch wood !!)

{{ Five OSs MultiBoot with two sata disks (500GB +1000GB) in a Intel P4
Machine with Gigabyte GA31 MB }}

Really it is an antique one which I got assembled in 2004. Later main
upgrades were adding DVD and DVD Writer and Sata HDs from original 40GB
Disk over all these years.

Just for informazion.

K L A Khan
Email : klakhan at gmail.com


On Tue 27 Oct, 2020, 3:25 PM Dimitri John Ledkov, <
1901137 at bugs.launchpad.net> wrote:

> 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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