[Bug 1616237] Re: Installer crashes trying to install EFI boot onto a normal (DOS) disc

[John Hunter]

Thank you for your reply -- which was less than helpful. I am not a
complete dolt: I attempted to follow the on screen instructions and the
mess that followed was entirelythe efforts of the grub installer.
Perhaps you need different, clearer instructions. To actually get a
working system, I produced a second (clean) drive (sdb) and installedthe
system on that. The grub installer then installed another boot record on
sda, leaving the old one almost intact (if you try to use it, the system
loops just after thedisplay of "kubuntu" -- I assume debris from the
first crash!). Luckily the UEFI is helpful so all is not lost: to boot
now,I have to switch on, press F12 ans select which boot record to use.
All is not well with the current grub installer; it only seems competent
installing on a simple virgin system. I think that more thought that
more thought needs to be putinto dealing with updating existing systems
as opposed to installing alongside Windows10.

    On Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 14:17, Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> wrote:
 

 The installer presented a warning informing you that you booted the
installer in UEFI mode, but your disk is partitioned for BIOS mode, and
suggested switching to a BIOS mode install.  You chose to continue in
UEFI mode.  Don't do that.


** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
      Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Installer crashes trying to install EFI boot onto a normal (DOS) disc

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This seems to be an installer silly. In this case, the install is
  installing over Kubuntu 14.04. The disc is a normal 500GB drive with a
  DOS partition table. The installer partition manager is aware of this
  but the boot installer seems to be oblivious of this. This makes an in
  situ upgrade virtually impossible. The computer's BIOS is running with
  UEFI disabled. (This is the 3rd attempt!)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Tue Aug 23 22:52:34 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  ProcEnviron:
  LANGUAGE=
  TERM=xterm
  PATH=(custom, no user)
  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Title:
  Installer crashes trying to install EFI boot onto a normal (DOS) disc

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  This seems to be an installer silly. In this case, the install is
  installing over Kubuntu 14.04. The disc is a normal 500GB drive with a
  DOS partition table. The installer partition manager is aware of this
  but the boot installer seems to be oblivious of this. This makes an in
  situ upgrade virtually impossible. The computer's BIOS is running with
  UEFI disabled. (This is the 3rd attempt!)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Tue Aug 23 22:52:34 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/kubuntu.seed boot=casper maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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