** Description changed: Hello, trying to install current daily-live images of Groovy in VirtualBox - fails for me when I'm using manual partitioning. + fails for me when I'm using manual partitioning without an EFI System + Partition (ESP). Steps to reproduce: 1. Partition layout I have used in VirtualBox: - * Partition table: MBR - * A single primary ext4 partition (/dev/sda1) using up the entire virtual harddisk with 1 MB free space before start of the partition + * Partition table: MBR + * A single primary ext4 partition (/dev/sda1) using up the entire virtual harddisk with 1 MB free space before start of the partition 2. Boot current Groovy daily-live image, click on "Install Ubuntu" 3. Choose "Something else" (manual partitioning) 4. Select /dev/sda1 as target for '/', check "format partition". 5. Ignore warning about missing EFI system partition. Result: The installation proceeds until GRUB is about to be installed. Then an error dialog appears: "Executing 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error." (screenshot attached). If I click 'Ok', after a moment Ubiquity nevertheless shows the usual dialog saying "Installation is complete. Please restart." The only option the dialog offered was to click on "Restart now". - After that, booting the failed installation succeeds, but it is obvious that Ubiquity couldn't complete its job: Packages like ubiquity itself, which usually get purged from the fresh system at the end of a successful installation, are still installed. There is also a pop-up in gnome-shell showing an error regarding package management (screenshot attached, not sure if this is related to the failed install). + After that, booting the failed installation succeeds, but it is obvious that Ubiquity couldn't complete its job: Packages like ubiquity itself, which usually get purged from the fresh system at the end of a successful installation, are still installed. There is also a pop-up in gnome-shell showing an error regarding package management (screenshot attached, not sure if this is related to the failed install). + + Modifying the setup by creating an ESP manually like described in #7 + makes the installation complete successfully without error. + + The setups I have tested (my machine and VirtualBox) don't support UEFI + or don't have UEFI support enabled respectively (and thus don't actually + require an ESP to boot). To send this report, I was running 'sudo ubuntu-bug ubiquity' on the "failed", but nevertheless booting fresh installation. Kind regards, Jan ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: ubiquity 20.10.9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-42.46-generic 5.4.44 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu45 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip Date: Wed Sep 2 16:55:14 2020 InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-42-generic root=UUID=6ba06971-16c7-4df6-afcc-3bc101cba9a5 ro quiet splash SourcePackage: ubiquity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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