Hello everybody
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction to fix my problem.
I have been a long time user of ubuntu and have many single and dual boot machines. I was attempting to upgrade a dual boot laptop from vanilla ubuntu 16.04 to 20.10 by replacing 16.04 with 20.10 ubuntuunity (I just don't like gnome - it's way too clunky after having used unity for ages). I know it's not a fully fledged official ubuntu version ... but I'm taking a punt here so please be kind!
As I wanted to preserve the windows10 and the linux /home partition, I chose "something else" when reaching the section on partitioning the disk.
Before installation I had the following setup:
sda1: physical partition; ntfs; system reserved; ~500MB
sda2: physical partition; nrfs; windows os; ~30GB
sda3: extended partition containingsda5: logical partition; ext4; / (root partition); 18GB
sda6: logical partition; linux swap
sda7: logical partition; ext4; /home; 93GB
sda4: physical partition; ntfs; 69GB
I chose sda5 as the location for the new root partition (with formatting), sda6 as the new location for the swap partition and sda7 as the location for /home (no formatting). For the device location of the boot loader I left it as the default /dev/sda.
Clicking through onto the next page to enter the locale (UK) there as a popup stating
"The attempt to mount a file system with type vfat in scsi7 (0,0,0) partition #2 (sdb) at /boot/efi failed."
I carried on regardless and it just sat there for ages doing nothing in particular. Having a read around, it seems others had a similar problem ages ago (2012) whereby attempting to preserve /home by choosing to not format it was a problem (something about a race condition /home not being unounted in time). I tried the work around (don't target /home in the installation and add in after the installation). That didn't work either.
I then chose to delete sda5, sda6, sda7 and then recreate them. That didn't work either. I then deleted sda5, sda6, sda7 but only recreated sda5 and sda6 - still no good.
I have tried mounting all ntfs partitions on sda manually using disks and gparted - they mount successfully.
The strange thing is that the message refers to "partition #2 (sdb)". sdb is the usb stick and partition 2 is the efi boot partition - all created from the iso I had to write the iso using dd as startupdisk creator didn't recognise it).
This is the state of the machine at the moment.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ blkid | grep sda
/dev/sda1: LABEL="System Reserved" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="D464179864177D04" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="7bb10d49-01"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Windows OS" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="6C96350C9634D7F2" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="7bb10d49-02"
/dev/sda4: LABEL="Shared" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="6DCF9AAF59C48098" TYPE="ntfs" PARTUUID="7bb10d49-04"
/dev/sda5: UUID="a95baff6-3c41-47c4-8ef9-06dbcdc15e1a" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7bb10d49-05"
/dev/sda6: UUID="c2ce3c09-4d65-41f8-839d-43ee599028a3" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="7bb10d49-06"
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ blkid | grep sdb
/dev/sdb2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="6FFF-D6F6" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI boot partition" PARTUUID="a8da6173-d491-4958-b4c2-6e7bc09402b0"
/dev/sdb3: BLOCK_SIZE="2048" LABEL="ISOIMAGE" TYPE="hfsplus" PARTLABEL="HFSPLUS" PARTUUID="a8da6173-d491-4958-b4c3-6e7bc09402b0"
/dev/sdb5: LABEL="writable" UUID="37896b39-5cf2-4551-a619-7a64cc170e4a" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="36ae7aa9-a693-b84a-9f7c-a758c7f40dd7"
Ideas anyone? (apart from go and ask the ubuntuunity team)
Thanks
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