Public bug reported:
Ubuntu 17.10 Budgie from 2018-01-05
While using the Ubuntu Installer
Selecting "Something else"
doing partition stuff, i can also select to use where to install the bootloader.
Installation of the OS succeeds, however if one installs the bootloader on a
device which does not have a DOS partition table (maybe GPT works, i am not
sure) it fails with "execution of grub-install failed" or similar.
The Problem was, where I wanted to install the bootloader had a ISO9660
partition table. (This was not the same device where I booted the live Ubuntu
from.)
For a neater experience I would suggest a dialog, which asks to
overwrite the partition table before trying to install the bootloader
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Ubuntu 17.10 Budgie from 2018-01-05
While using the Ubuntu Installer
Selecting "Something else"
doing partition stuff, i can also select to use where to install the
bootloader.
Installation of the OS succeeds, however if one installs the bootloader on a
device which does not have a DOS partition table (maybe GPT works, i am not
sure) it fails with "execution of grub-install failed" or similar.
The Problem was, where I wanted to install the bootloader had a ISO9660
partition table. (This was not the same device where I booted the live Ubuntu
from.)
For a neater experience I would suggest a dialog, which asks to
- overwrite the partition table.
+ overwrite the partition table before trying to install the bootloader
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Title:
Bootloader installation fails on a non-DOS-Partition-table blockdevice
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