** 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 => Critical
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Description changed:
During a side-by-side installation, the EFI partition is not created..
If it doesn't already exist (which given recent bug reports seems to be
the case on systems with MS Windows installed), installation fails at
grub stage.
TEST CASE:
+ Note: This test case simulates in qemu the behavior found on real HW eg. bug
1299134
+
1. Install trusty in BIOS mode
$ qemu-img create -f qcow2 /tmp/disk.img 16G
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm \
-drive file=/tmp/disk.img,if=ide,media=disk \
-pflash /tmp/bios.bin \
-cdrom $ISO
2. Reboot
3. Reuse the same disk and Install trusty in UEFI mode for example start qemu
with the option -pflash=/tmp/ovmf.bin and the binary file attached to this bug
report.
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm \
-drive file=/tmp/disk.img,if=ide,media=disk \
-pflash /tmp/bios.bin \
-cdrom $ISO
4. Proceed to the partitioner and select a side-by-side installation
5. Proceed with the rest of the installation
ACTUAL RESULT:
This crash
EXPECTED RESULT:
There are several ways to address this issue, I see 2 options there are
probably more:
1. Warn the user and refuse to proceed past the partitioner
2. Create an EFI partition like the entire disk installation does.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.17.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-22.44-generic 3.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.339
Date: Fri Apr 4 10:36:19 2014
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Daily amd64 (20140403)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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Title:
grub-installer should fall back to grub-pc instead of grub-efi when
there is no EFI system partition
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