GovDude
September 13th, 2017, 12:14 AM
I haven't done a fresh install of Ubuntu in about 7 years, and it shows! Maybe someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong...
I have a new HP Z640 workstation with two disks, a 1TB SSD and 3TB standard drive. I disabled everything I could find in the BIOS about secure boot and enabled everything I could find about legacy boot. I changed the boot order so that it boots USB, DVD, HDD, SSD. Popped in the the 16.04 install DVD and it booted just fine. Selected "Install Ubuntu" and off it went. I got a considerable way through the install but when it tries to install grub it fails. So I rebooted from the install DVD and selected "Try Ubuntu" instead of the install and after booting I opened up a terminal. Everything looks fine, according to my read of UEFI, GPT, and a lot of new crap that I'm not familiar with. My partitions look like:
# parted -l
Model: ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kb 2095kb 1049kb bios_grub
2 2097kb 2863GB 2863GB ext4
3 2963GB 3001GB 137GB linux-swap(v1)
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1024GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
So I'm trying to install Ubuntu on the ATA and all I've done to the SSD is wipe Windows off of it and wipe the partitions. I believe I did something in the BIOS to erase it as well, some type of Windows Boot Manager partition I think? That was so many steps ago though so I don't recall exactly. Back to the open terminal from the "Try Ubuntu" boot...
Now I can invoke grub manually like:
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
# grub-install /dev/sda --root=/mnt
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
And even go through the whole install process again after this, this time without any grub errors, and then I get the message about no boot device being found. The exact message looks like:
BootDevice Not Found
Please install an operating system on your hard disk.
Hard Disk - (3F0)
And then the options to go into the BIOS. Again, the BIOS looks fine to me. None of the UEFI options are active, and I have the Toshiba listed in the boot devices, but it's a no-go?
Hopefully someone has some suggestions. Most of what I've been able to find on Google deals with UEFI booting, which I don't think is my issue.
TIA!
Gary
I have a new HP Z640 workstation with two disks, a 1TB SSD and 3TB standard drive. I disabled everything I could find in the BIOS about secure boot and enabled everything I could find about legacy boot. I changed the boot order so that it boots USB, DVD, HDD, SSD. Popped in the the 16.04 install DVD and it booted just fine. Selected "Install Ubuntu" and off it went. I got a considerable way through the install but when it tries to install grub it fails. So I rebooted from the install DVD and selected "Try Ubuntu" instead of the install and after booting I opened up a terminal. Everything looks fine, according to my read of UEFI, GPT, and a lot of new crap that I'm not familiar with. My partitions look like:
# parted -l
Model: ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA3 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 3001GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kb 2095kb 1049kb bios_grub
2 2097kb 2863GB 2863GB ext4
3 2963GB 3001GB 137GB linux-swap(v1)
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1024GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
So I'm trying to install Ubuntu on the ATA and all I've done to the SSD is wipe Windows off of it and wipe the partitions. I believe I did something in the BIOS to erase it as well, some type of Windows Boot Manager partition I think? That was so many steps ago though so I don't recall exactly. Back to the open terminal from the "Try Ubuntu" boot...
Now I can invoke grub manually like:
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
# grub-install /dev/sda --root=/mnt
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
And even go through the whole install process again after this, this time without any grub errors, and then I get the message about no boot device being found. The exact message looks like:
BootDevice Not Found
Please install an operating system on your hard disk.
Hard Disk - (3F0)
And then the options to go into the BIOS. Again, the BIOS looks fine to me. None of the UEFI options are active, and I have the Toshiba listed in the boot devices, but it's a no-go?
Hopefully someone has some suggestions. Most of what I've been able to find on Google deals with UEFI booting, which I don't think is my issue.
TIA!
Gary