[Bug 1782463] Re: Mate 18.04 64 grub update fails to write to g2G 1st partition on 4T drives

[Felix]

Right. That makes sense now, after I gave up on this particular disk's
boot process, but later was forced to learn enough about bios/EFI to
find creative ways to get around bios/EFI boot issues.

So I take it grub-update or grub-install are simply not able to do the
right thing? Or both things. That is to say, they cannot know how to
make a system bootable and/or they cannot set a system up to boot either
bios or EFI, depending on how bios is set?

Just curious now. Thanks,

Felix

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Title:
  Mate 18.04 64 grub update fails to write to g2G 1st partition on 4T
  drives

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Trying to install Bionic Beaver Mate 64AMD to a couple 4T disks with
  32G Ext4 partition mounted at / and with a 4G swap partition and an
  extra 3.9T Ext4 partition that takes all but 30G of the rest of the
  space.

  The install OS is on a USB 32G CF card. It has been used to install to
  various other "drives" successfully.

  The 4T drives pass extended Smart tests.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  Date: Wed Jul 18 17:37:06 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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