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pgoetz
Asked: 2013-06-01 01:30:22 +0800 CST

Installation of 64-bit Ubuntu 13.04 server fails with "Unable to install busybox-initramfs"

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I tried installing the 64-bit 13.04 Ubuntu server on a fairly generic superMicro box with dual OCZ SSD's I plan to software RAID. The install failed with a "Unable to install busybox-initramfs" message. This appears to be a bug documented on launchpad. (I got the same error message even when ignoring the second SSD.)

I checked console 4 for details:

apt-install or in-target is already running, so you cannot run either of them again until the other instance finishes.
You may be able to use `chroot /target ...` instead.

in-target: Unexpected error; command not executed:
`sh -c debconf-apt-progress --no-progress --logstderr -- apt-get -q -y --no-remove install busybox-initramfs`

I'm not sure what to do with this error message without sifting through the installer code, but the person who reported the bug originally on launchpad suggested that he found a workaround by "preseeding the installation with linux-server". Does anyone have any idea what this means / how to do this?

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1 Answers

  1. I have had the same issue and did two things to solve it. Dont exactly know, which one solved it... Installing to LVM too.

    1. erased the USB stick again, with the Ubuntu Boot Media Creator(dont know the exact english name sorrz)
    2. /boot partition separate, outside of LVM, formated with ext3(with error it was ext4)

    After that, the installation succeeded.

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