[Bug 1781302] [NEW] Grub will not install during installation of Ubuntu

[Richard Cederberg]

Public bug reported:

Grub fail to install during standard install of Ubuntu. I had installed
Linux Mint 19 on my old MacBook Pro, but changed my mind and decided to
install Ubuntu 18.04. During install I got errors saying it could not
mount sda1 and finally at the end of install it Grub would not install.
I tried again this time creating my own partitions sda1/ sda1/boot and
sda1/home.  This time it did not complain about mounting sda1 ... but
still failed to install Grub.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jul 12 09:46:22 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubiquity-18.04.14 ubuntu

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Title:
  Grub will not install during installation of Ubuntu

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Grub fail to install during standard install of Ubuntu. I had
  installed Linux Mint 19 on my old MacBook Pro, but changed my mind and
  decided to install Ubuntu 18.04. During install I got errors saying it
  could not mount sda1 and finally at the end of install it Grub would
  not install.  I tried again this time creating my own partitions sda1/
  sda1/boot and sda1/home.  This time it did not complain about mounting
  sda1 ... but still failed to install Grub.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu Jul 12 09:46:22 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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