[Bug 855871] Re: Grub install fails after manual xfs partitioning

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

Thanks for your report.

Here is the error 
Sep 21 21:30:48 ubuntu grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/mac
Sep 21 21:30:49 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda2: gpt
Sep 21 21:30:51 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: Warnung: there's no installed package matching grub
Sep 21 21:30:51 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: Warnung: there's no installed package matching grub-legacy
Sep 21 21:30:51 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: Warnung: there's no installed package matching grub-efi
Sep 21 21:30:51 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: Warnung: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-amd64-bin
Sep 21 21:30:51 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: Warnung: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-amd64
Sep 21 21:30:51 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: Warnung: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-ia32-bin
Sep 21 21:30:51 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: Warnung: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-ia32
Sep 21 21:30:52 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Sep 21 21:30:52 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Sep 21 21:30:52 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"
Sep 21 21:30:53 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: Warnung: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!.
Sep 21 21:30:53 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: Warnung: Einbettung ist nicht möglich. GRUB kann in dieser Konfiguration nur mittels Blocklisten installiert werden. Blocklisten sind allerdings UNZUVERLÄSSIG und deren Verwendung wird daher nicht empfohlen..
Sep 21 21:30:58 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: Fehler: »/boot/grub/core.img« kann nicht korrekt gelesen werden.
Sep 21 21:30:58 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"' failed.


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Grub install fails after manual xfs partitioning

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I chose the manual partitioning option.
  I first created a new partition table.
  Then I created a 5 GB swap at the beginning of the disk (RAM is 4GB)
  I left a 1 GB gap in the middle of the disk, unpartitioned, to not use up the entire disk.
  Then I created a 300-something GB XFS partition at the end of the disk.

  Installation continues until grub tries to install and fails. Grub
  says that it has failed. I opted to continue without installing the
  bootloader. Upon finishing the installation, ubiquity also crashed,
  which is what this apport report caught. The real problem appears to
  be with grub/partman though.

  This is ubuntu-oneiric-desktop-amd64+mac.iso from 2011-09-21

  This is a MacBookPro6,2

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.7.34
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.284
  Date: Wed Sep 21 21:34:42 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64+mac (20110921.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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