[Bug 1819372] Re: grub-install: error: cannot find canonical path '/cow'

Vasya Pupkin 1819372 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Mar 11 01:15:16 UTC 2019


Marking as invalid as most probably it was because /boot/efi wasn't
mounted properly.

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

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Title:
  grub-install: error: cannot find canonical path '/cow'

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Cannot install Ubuntu 18.04. It fails to install GRUB. Running grub-
  install manually returns error: cannot find canonical path '/cow'.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Mar 10 23:04:24 2019
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash acpi=off ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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