Having trouble installing Ubuntu due to my drive setup, bootloader install failed


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I currently have three drives in my machine.

 

  • A: Windows 10 personal (/dev/nvme0n1)
  • B: Storage drive (/dev/sda)
  • C: Windows 10 work (/dev/sdb)

 

I dual boot between drives A and C, A is my main personal Windows 10 install and C is used for my work Windows 10 install.

 

I was planning on using Ubuntu as my work OS and keeping Windows 10 as my personal OS due to gaming and my kids/partner having accounts on that drive.

 

I downloaded and burned the Ubuntu ISO onto a USB drive and booted from it. When I try and install it the install wizard tells me This computer currently has no detected operating systems. What would you like to do?

I chose the option to install on a drive, I chose drive C, the install seemed to go fine until it got to installing the bootloader. The wizard told me it couldn't install the bootloader to /dev/nvme0n1, I also tried choosing /dev/sdb but it wouldn't install there either.

 

Now I'm kind of stuck, I chose the option to not install a bootloader to see if I could get out of the wizard and try again but the install process seems to have hung.

 

I'm not sure what to do to either fix what I have done or start again and do it properly.

 

I'm still in the Ubuntu live system, I haven't restarted the machine yet.

You need a separate partition for booting. You can't install all of it in 1 partition.

 

There any reason you can't use VirtualBox? Run it as a VM?

  On 05/06/2021 at 12:49, Mindovermaster said:

You need a separate partition for booting. You can't install all of it in 1 partition.

 

There any reason you can't use VirtualBox? Run it as a VM?

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Because I'd rather not have to use a VM for eight odd hours a day especially because the performance of them isn't awesome on my machine.

 

So how do I make another partition? I would have assumed the Ubuntu installer would have made all the partitions it needed during the install.

  On 05/06/2021 at 16:50, unabatedshagie said:

Because I'd rather not have to use a VM for eight odd hours a day especially because the performance of them isn't awesome on my machine.

 

So how do I make another partition? I would have assumed the Ubuntu installer would have made all the partitions it needed during the install.

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You know, VM's have gotten better over the years. But, if you don't want to, that's your choice.

 

I "think" (don't quote me on this) that it is trying to overwite your Windows boot loader. I haven't played with that since Win7. It could be it uses something different than 10.

 

To make this 100% easier, just install it on a spare SSD. Change the boot loader in BIOS/UEFI when you want to use it. Easy peasy.

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