Comment 94 for bug 1396379

and to Brian's point, it has never happened to me with Fedora.

On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 at 15:32, Tim Richardson <email address hidden> wrote:

> Brady, you are correct. The wrong partition is mounted.
>
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 at 14:25, Brady Dean <email address hidden>
> wrote:
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>> The issue is that the wrong partition is mounted to /target/boot/efi,
>> right? grub-install doesn't mount that, ubiquity does.
>>
>> Look at the attached screenshot from here (in the zip file)
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1591352. When
>> that screenshot was taken grub has not even been installed yet, it was
>> still copying the filesystem.
>>
>> /dev/sdb is the intended target to install ubuntu, but /dev/sda2
>> (windows esp) is mounted to /target/boot/efi. grub (the actual
>> bootloader) is installed to /dev/sdb, but when the /boot files are
>> copied the efi directory ends up on the wrong partition.
>>
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>> Title:
>> installer uses first EFI system partition found even when directed
>> otherwise
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Tim Richardson