[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2016-04-17 Thread Phillip Susi
As the error message says, you can not install grub in bios booting mode on a GPT partitioned disk without a bios_grub partition. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid ** Changed in: grub-installer

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2016-03-28 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066325 Title: F

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2016-03-28 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066325 Title: Fail

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-19 Thread Soren Mogensen
Have tonight tried with the release version of 12.10 - and the issue is still there. See attached syslog from the latest installation attempt. I had to use my workaround of removing my hard disk while installing 12.10 and subsequently re-attaching the hard disk. As a result I now have 12.10 instal

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
Aha, a misunderstanding. It is direct on harware. -> o.K -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066325 Title: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12 To manage notific

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread Soren Mogensen
I guess a workaround will be to remove the hard disk while installing onto the SSD then add the hard disk back in afterwards. Just a bit of a hassle really. Surely there will be many users who have multiple drives in their machine. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread Soren Mogensen
Sorry, but the only reason I mentioned KVM was that I initially tested in KVM with no issues what so ever - and that was what caused me to go ahead with a direct hardware install. The issue above IS a direct hardware install (no KVM)! Thus, I hope this can be fixed before Thursday as I would quite

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
There are only known problems with RAID settups when I remember correct. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1066325 Title: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12 T

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
@ Soren Just for knowing: I have looked over the last reports on grub-installer. There are nearly no issues arround with Ubuntu12.10, which resides on top of Grub2 2.0. Just reports for Ubuntu12.04, which resides on grub2 1.99.x May be your report is just caused by the KVM environment. So ,may

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
With the line you can find above and following Oct 14 13:34:15 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force "/dev/sda"' failed. it is a problem with grub-installer. I will attach also this package here and keep the report open for grub2 and ubiquity, because I could not decide whi

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
In Syslog from comment 10 (from error logs 1 tar gz): Oct 14 13:34:13 ubuntu ubiquity: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[34046]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 22139: /bin/sh Oct 14 13:34:13 ubuntu ubiquity: Volume group "sdb" not found Oct 14 13:34:13 ubuntu ubiquity: Skipping volume grou

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
from error logs 1 tar gz ** Attachment added: "syslog" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1066325/+attachment/3398165/+files/syslog -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
from error log 1 tar gz ** Attachment added: "partman" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1066325/+attachment/3398164/+files/partman -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread Soren Mogensen
Attached is a tarball with /var/log/syslog, /var/log/partman, and /var/log/installer (same as previous attachment, but taken after subsequently attempting to manually choose the location /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 - both failing. All logs produced with latest daily build (14th October). ** Attachment

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread Soren Mogensen
Attached is a tarball of /var/log/syslog, /var/log/partman, and /var/log/installer taken at the time of the error writing boot loader to /dev/sda. ** Attachment added: "error_logs_1.tgz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1066325/+attachment/3398133/+files/error_logs_1.tg

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
I have set this for now to ubiquity and grub2, but the problem of the missing logs is still there. If you want to help us to investigate further please attach the logs from /var/log/syslog /var/log/partman /var/log/installer of a fresh installation try.(May be you can get them to a flash drive/s

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-14 Thread melchiaros
Sorry Soren, but you have hit the wrong package. This is on the installer itself(ubiquity) or grub2 or on grub-installer. ** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => ubiquity (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => New ** Also affects: ubiquity Importance: Undecided

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-13 Thread Soren Mogensen
12.10 beta 2 fails in the same way as the 12 October daily build of 12.10: The installer attempts to write the boot loader to the wrong device (/dev/sda) and fails; manually changing the selection to /dev/sdb does not produce a bootable system. Have now re-installed 12.04, which successfully write

[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

2012-10-13 Thread Soren Mogensen
Booting off the live image for daily build 12 october does not allow me to run apport-collect, claiming that a package is missing (or something similar). Experienced a hard-freeze right after the error so currently booting live image of 12.04. Running apport-collect off the 12.04 live image does n