after creating a USB memory stick with the install image, it finally booted in. I could run the install, but at the end it fails installing grub. moreover, it doesn't even create /etc/default/grub , so that it would be easy to do an update-grub..
moreover, chroot-ing into /target after the failed install shows an environment, where update-grub isn't installed, and where one can't even apt-get install grub-pc the core of the issue seems to be that the laptop contains an intel 82801 RAID controller, and that the SSDs in the system are appearing as /dev/mapper/isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-0. interestingly, it's not sufficient to simply add the following line into /target/boot/grub/device.map: (hd0) /dev/mapper/isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-0 as it will complain for a missing mapping for isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-02 (which is the actual root partition). modifying the device map to the following: (hd0) /dev/mapper/isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-0 (isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-02) /dev/mapper/isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-02 solves this issue, but bring in a missing mapping for isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-0. trying (hd0) /dev/mapper/isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-0 (isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-0 ) /dev/mapper/isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-0 (isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-02) /dev/mapper/isw_cdfcbdcfed_RAID-02 make grub-install succeed, but the system won't boot - one is dropped to a grub rescue prompt on boot, with the erro: error: no such disk -- Ubuntu 9.10 cannot be installed on HP Envy 15 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520381 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
