Regarding my comment #13 at duplicate bug #1050940 I now believe (after
much investigation & help from others) that my issue was actually more
firmware related than due to a bug in Ubuntu.
What had happened is that I installed Ubuntu Trusty in UEFI mode
alongside Windows 8.1 (made sure that the li
This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.
A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1302418
** Tags added: iso-testing
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This bug was fixed in the package grub-installer - 1.78ubuntu20
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* Fall back to grub-pc if there is no /target/boot/efi directory (thanks,
Phillip Susi; LP: #1302418).
-- Colin WatsonWed, 09 Apr 2014 15:20:05 +0100
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Tested the patch with beta 2 install DVD image (on USB stick) and my
laptop (the one related to bug 1299134):
1. The installer finished without warning or error.
2. The grub installation fall back to use grub-pc. System boots successfully.
Thanks.
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** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed
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Title:
grub-installer should fall back to grub-pc instea
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Title:
grub-installer should fall back to grub-pc instead of grub-efi when
there i
That sounds correct. We only need a warning in the GPT case; the right
fix for the MBR case seems to be to install grub-pc, and no warning is
needed.
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If there is an existing bios booting OS installed ( MBR partitioned disk
), and you choose to install along side to dual boot, you don't see the
warning about not having an esp, and obviously one is not created.
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 04:28:34PM -, Phillip Susi wrote:
> The patch is just this simple:
Thanks. I'll probably sleep on it just to make sure my hindbrain has
had a chance to come up with objections, but this seems reasonably
plausible.
> I did notice two odd things in this process. The fi
So this actually turned out ot be very simple. I made the following
change, and tested it in the following ways:
1) Boot in efi mode, do a use whole disk install. It created an efi system
partition and used grub-efi.
2) Boot in efi mode, manually partition, remove the efi system partition, an
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Title:
grub-installer should fall back to grub-pc instead of grub-efi when
there is no EFI system partition
T
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => Colin
Watson (cjwatson)
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Title:
I'd prefer the installer to fallback to grub-pc in this case.
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Title:
grub-installer should fall back to grub-pc instead of grub-efi when
there
** Also affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Canonical Foundations Team
(canonical-foundations)
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided => Cr
I started looking at this yesterday. The right thing to do is to fall
back to grub-pc since the machine is normally bios booting, and they
just used uefi to boot the cd.
** Summary changed:
- auto-resize installation fails if efi partition doesn't already exists
+ grub-installer should fall bac
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