Ubuntu 18.04.2 problem

[Meeditation]

Hello everyone,

It's been 5 days that I try to install Ubuntu 18.04.2 and it always fails; The installation itself goes well but when I remove the installation drive (iso image) and reboot it, the VM remains stuck at the boot from "HD drive" or at the " grub rescue";

I tried changing the Graphic card to "VMware compatible" and it didn't work, I tried also creating 1Gb partition at the beginning of my disk and it didn't work.

P.S: My config:
HDD: 10TB (50GB for swap and the rest in ext4)
RAM: 50Gb
Processor: (30 cores - Host)

Does anyone know a solution?

Thanks

 

[oguz]

hi

I tried changing the Graphic card to "VMware compatible" and it didn't work,

if it's getting stuck on grub rescue, this is unlikely to have any effect. if i had to take a guess, i'd be looking for a partitioning/boot partition issue.

* how are you partitioning while installing ubuntu?
* do you see any error message on grub?

 

[Meeditation]

hi



if it's getting stuck on grub rescue, this is unlikely to have any effect. if i had to take a guess, i'd be looking for a partitioning/boot partition issue.

* how are you partitioning while installing Ubuntu?
* do you see any error message on grub?

Thank you for your reply;

* I tried everything that comes to my mind:

- Creating a 1 GB partition at the beginning of my drive; Then my main partition in ext4, then a swap partition;
- Create my main partition in ext4 and a swap;
- Creating my main partition in LVM.

* Grub problem:

 

[oguz]

looks like a partitioning problem at first glance.

after some googling i found this[0]

have you tried the instructions here?

[0]: https://askubuntu.com/a/397520

 

[Meeditation]

looks like a partitioning problem at first glance.

after some googling i found this[0]

have you tried the instructions here?

[0]: https://askubuntu.com/a/397520

Yes, I tried the first 3 solutions (it did not work); The last 2, I did not understand them

 

[oguz]

alright.

did you try to install from this iso somewhere else? does it work there?

i'm pretty sure the problem lies in partitioning or choosing the boot partition. maybe you can just do an automatic paritioning and see if that works? that way we rule out that problem if that's not the case.

 

[Meeditation]

alright.

did you try to install from this iso somewhere else? does it work there?

i'm pretty sure the problem lies in partitioning or choosing the boot partition. maybe you can just do an automatic paritioning and see if that works? that way we rule out that problem if that's not the case.

Yes, I tried it in VMware. Apparently, it's a problem with only Ubuntu 18.04.2 (I tried 19.04, 16.04 and 14.04.6 and it worked perfectly) and I need this specific version.

 

[oguz]

how about automatic partitioning while installing? does that work with proxmox?

 

[Meeditation]

how about automatic partitioning while installing? does that work with proxmox?

I tried it and it returned the same problem

 

[Meeditation]

Apparently, I managed to install it, but with only 1 TB of storage. (I changed the graphics card to VMware compatible and it worked)

 

[oguz]

it'd be useful for others if you described the exact steps you took while solving the problem.

also, you can mark the thread [SOLVED] if you edit your first post.

 

[Meeditation]

it'd be useful for others if you described the exact steps you took while solving the problem.

also, you can mark the thread [SOLVED] if you edit your first post.

First, when creating a new Linux host, we can not allocate + 2TB to a partition. So I only allocated 2TB for my first one, then I changed the graphics card to VMware compatible and it worked. (After installation I added the 2nd partition with the rest of my HDD using GPT)