[Bug 1816184] Re: Disco ubiquity crash

[Fred Palmer]

Rebooted and reinstalled.
Using different order for selecting ESP/efi partition it worked without error on not using sda, but installed to ESP on sda.
Install log showed this:

Feb 15 20:23:36 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb'
Feb 15 20:23:36 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Feb 15 20:23:36 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force "/dev/sdb"
Feb 15 20:23:36 ubuntu grub-installer: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.

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Title:
  Disco ubiquity crash

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Installing latest version as of Feb 15, 2019.

  I have multiple installs, so using Something Else install option.
  I am able to change partition to use to my sdb8 which is previous Disco install.
  I tell it not to use swaps that I still have on sda & sdc.

  But I want to install grub to sdb's ESP. It recognizes sdb's ESP as
  the efi partition, but when I try to tell it not to use sda1, my
  ESP/efi partition it totally locks up with a white box centered on
  screen with smaller circle with an X in middle and ????? on two lines
  next to circle with X in white box.

  System totally locked up, so logs not available.

  Testing to see if any of these related bugs are fixed in grub.
  Ubuntu Installer uses wrong bootloader location for USB/sdb UEFI installs 
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1173457
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1396379
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1229488
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1229488

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