[Bug 1924823] Re: ESP on install medium automatically configured as ESP for install, failing install

[Jeremie Tamburini]

Hi everybody,
As guiverc I have updated Ubiquity on a older Ubuntu iso image to get version  21.04.19

In good part I can confirm good news!
...but there are still bizarre things

I've performed 2 test installation:

1- MANUALLY CHOSING A PARTITION
Same result reported by guiverc at comment #24
The bad thing is the message 'No EFI Partition found. This system will likely not be able to boot... please go back and add an EFI...'
This can be tricky!

2- INSTALL ALONGSIDE... (in remaining disk space - 3 partition already taken on MBR)
That's a typical situation seen many times on old computers with Windows7 that already takes 3 partitions.
It finally works! But it's quite weird.
During the installation the well known grub error message "Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed This is a fatal error" appears.
But rebooting the system everything is fine. I'm actually writhing from the installed system.
I'm afraid that the error message can be even trickier than the message in the previous case.

I've filed bug #1925187 before rebooting the system not knowing if the
system could boot. Then I've changed title and description... anyway,
log files are there for further information.


I presume there is no much time before the release dayleft for a 'cleaner' solution. It's a pity that only now someone is doing something against these issues.
Anyway... juliank and also jibel, thank you very much for all the efforts.


P.S. I'll probably repeat the tests when the new daily-build is out.

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Title:
  ESP on install medium automatically configured as ESP for install,
  failing install

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This bug report is a duplicated of bug #1902269 performed with Ubuntu 20.10.
  Basically installation fail when the installer doesn't find an EFI (ESR) partition on computers with legacy BIOS.

  This time I have used Ubuntu 21.04 also to test the new version of
  Ubiquity package (21.04.15) which, as reported here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1893964/comments/22
  should have fixed the issue.

  Unfortunately I'm still experiencing the same problem.

  #### Partition details:
  - msdos partition table
  - 4 primary partitions, all ext4

  ---
  Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda4: msdos
  Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
  Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
  Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"
  Apr 17 00:18:54 ubuntu grub-installer: Installazione per la piattaforma x86_64-efi.
  Apr 17 00:19:07 ubuntu grub-installer: grub-install: errore: impossibile copiare "/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi-signed/grubx64.efi.signed" su "/boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu/grubx64.efi": Spazio esaurito sul device.
  Apr 17 00:19:07 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --force --target x86_64-efi "/dev/sda"' failed.
  ---

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
  Package: ubiquity 21.04.15
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-14.15-generic 5.11.12
  Uname: Linux 5.11.0-14-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
  CasperVersion: 1.461
  Date: Sat Apr 17 02:20:20 2021
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Beta amd64 (20210416)
  RebootRequiredPkgs:
   linux-image-5.11.0-14-generic
   linux-base
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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