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grub-installer package

On a complex partition layout with software raid installer fails to install bootloader

Bug #1173677 reported by Agel on 2013-04-27

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub-installer (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When there are two dmraid arrays on intel raid controller installer fails to setup bootloader. It ingonres selected device and always tries to install it on /dev/sda

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity 2.14.6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.331
Date: Sat Apr 27 19:26:11 2013
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper persistent initrd=/casper/initrd.lz splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=unknown
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Agel (archagel) wrote on 2013-04-27:

#1

Casper.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (1.3 MiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (340.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Agel (archagel) wrote on 2013-04-27:

#2

This bug exists in ubuntu installer at least for 3 years. Only now I have overcome my lazyness and submitted it.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote on 2013-04-27:

#3

Which device did you choose to install grub to?

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Agel (archagel) wrote on 2013-04-27:

#4

/dev/mapper/isw_ebhcfihceg_SSensitive

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote on 2013-04-27:

#5

I take it you have repeated the process to make sure you selected the correct drive? Have you tried manually running grub-install?

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Agel (archagel) wrote on 2013-04-27:

#6

Yep. And when it fails to install it presents a dialog to try again, but result is the same.
I had to ignore this error, finish installation and in chroot evniroment run:

grub-install /dev/mapper/isw_ebhcfihceg_SSensitive
update-grub

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Agel (archagel) wrote on 2013-04-27:

#7

By the way - partition table is also displayed wrong - examine UbiquityPartman.txt. I have two devices with Storage and Sensitive.
But it displays their partitions as additional devices. I think this is source of a problem.

Phillip Susi (psusi) on 2013-04-27

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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