@ Philip Susi - You are very likely onto something here. I'm running a 2006 MacPro (1,1 & 2,1), which is an outlier in that it has 64bit processors and a 32bit EFI implementation. efibootmgr doesn't work on this hardware, I'm guessing because it only works in 64bit mode, but please, I'd love to be educated if efibootmgr does or can work in an install of 32bit Ubuntu and can be patched/hacked to work in a mixed arch environment.
While my antique MacPro probably doesn't warrant 5 minutes of any developer's time, there are a number of recent/current implementations of 64bit processors mated to 32bit efi - specifically certain new atom- based tablets and Intel's new(ish) "computestick". For whatever reason, Ubuntu does support mixed architecture, so, here we are. It's (probably) not just an antique Mactel issue. I suppose the important part of this is that, as I noted in my original report, Grub (64bit) does *not fail when installing Trusty - 14.04.1, despite my mixed arch environment, and Wily does. A little background: After dozens of failed attempts at installing any version of Ubuntu, I stumbled across Ian Morrison's Linuxium site (https://plus.google.com/+IanMORRISON/posts) and his "official unofficial" patched Trusty installer. The "patch" amounts including grubia32.efi in the /EFI/BOOT/ folder at the root of any Ubuntu Live installer. grubia32.efi allows mixed architecture machines to boot the Live media, install Ubuntu in 64 bit mode, and then those of us who need to can purge Grub64, install Grub ia32, and run 64bit Ubuntu. After the first failed install of Wily, I sat and watched the messages throughout the install. I definitely noticed Grub being installed and the kernels being built, but then, after other installations and configurations, the "final" (?) install of Grub - which I'm guessing was actually "grub-update" command - failed. I then booted from my patched Live USB and chroot'ed into my Wily install. Grub was there, in my /boot folder, along with Wily kernels, but there was no grub.cfg file. I purged Grub, installed Grubia32, updated Grub and can now boot into either Trusty or Wily. @ Brad Figg - files are uploaded. I did have to install python-apport. It was not present at install time, so it may or may not be helpful. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1519172 Title: Latest Wily install fails when installing Grub 3x in a row. Checked md5, all fine To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1519172/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
