On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 07:45:56AM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 10:18:34 +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > I run the xubuntu 19.10 installation selecting "something else" at the > > disk partitioning stage. I have partitioned as follows:- > > > > /dev/nvme0n1 > > /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 31250431 31248384 14.9G Linux swap > > /dev/nvme0n1p2 31250432 2000408575 1969158144 939G Linux filesystem > > > > /dev/sda > > /dev/sda1 4xxG Linux filesystem > > > > ... and I say mount /boot on /dev/sda1, / on /dev/nvme0n1p2. > > Right. > > > The installation proceeds and does all the usual things, copies files, > > installs stuff, etc. The over half-way through it pops up an error > > box:- > > > > Executing 'grub-install /dev/nvme0n1' failed > > This is a fatal error > > You do not want to be installing grub on the NVMe drive (since your BIOS > can't boot to it). Somewhere in the installation process you should > have had an opportunity to select /dev/sda (and only sda, in this case) > as the target for installing GRUB. > Exactly! I thought telling the install that /boot is on /dev/sda1 should set the target for grub shouldn't it?
> > > The install is then totally broken as none of the options to get past > > this point actually work when you click the buttons! > > (These non-functioning buttons are a problem with the Xubuntu installer > rather than GRUB per se, and ideally you should file a bug report with > Xubuntu....) > Yes, in fact I think the whole shambles is probably an [x]ubuntu bug report. I have since managed to get xubuntu 19.10 installed wholly on /dev/sda1 by running the install with *only* that disk connected. I've alse reconnected all the other disks and now have a boot menu that allows me to boot either 19.04 or 19.10 - progress! :-) All I need to do now is move the 19.10 installation from /dev/sda1 to the NVME SSD (leaving /boot on /dev/sda1 of course). -- Chris Green
