[Bug 1574446] Re: installation to coexist with 12.04 failed - grub-efi-amd64-signed pkg did not install

james jamesaffeld at gmail.com
Mon May 2 04:34:28 UTC 2016


In that case we have two bugs: one, the installer dialogue says I will not
be able to boot to the previous installation when it is the current
installation which will fail, in which case it should not proceed. The
second is that after accepting the change, the installation fails.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Phillip Susi <phillsusi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
> the 16.04 installer in EFI mode. A warning message prompted you that
> this could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install
> instead, but you chose not to. You either need to perform the bios mode
> install, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system
> partition to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you
> choose the "use entire disk" guided install option.
>
> ** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Invalid
>
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> Title:
>   installation to coexist with 12.04 failed - grub-efi-amd64-signed pkg
>   did not install
>
> Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
>   Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>   "grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install into /target/.
>   Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot."
>
>   followed by 'installer crashed'
>
>   Installing next to a 12.04 installation that had individual partitions
>   for /home, /var, /usr, /bin, etc. Resized to put 16.04 all on one
>   partition. That may have something to do with the failure.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   Package: ubiquity 2.21.63 [modified:
> lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CasperVersion: 1.376
>   Date: Sun Apr 24 09:22:17 2016
>   InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
> file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
>   LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
> (20160420.1)
>   ProcEnviron:
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>   SourcePackage: grub-installer
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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Title:
  installation to coexist with 12.04 failed - grub-efi-amd64-signed pkg
  did not install

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  "grub-efi-amd64-signed package failed to install into /target/.
  Without the GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot."

  followed by 'installer crashed'

  Installing next to a 12.04 installation that had individual partitions
  for /home, /var, /usr, /bin, etc. Resized to put 16.04 all on one
  partition. That may have something to do with the failure.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Sun Apr 24 09:22:17 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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