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Re: xubuntu 19.10 fails to install with /boot on different drive - grub-
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Nathan Stratton Treadway |
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Re: xubuntu 19.10 fails to install with /boot on different drive - grub-install error |
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Fri, 22 Nov 2019 07:45:56 -0500 |
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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:-
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> /dev/nvme0n1
> /dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 31250431 31248384 14.9G Linux swap
> /dev/nvme0n1p2 31250432 2000408575 1969158144 939G Linux filesystem
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> /dev/sda
> /dev/sda1 4xxG Linux filesystem
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> ... 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:-
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> 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.
> 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....)
Nathan
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