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ubiquity package

Grub refuses to install from both live disk & alternate disk causing installation failure (64 bit)

Bug #478468 reported by Jonathan Dawson on 2009-11-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #704763: boot loader not installed to target disk. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

I have tried both installers for kubuntu 9.10 64 bit and everything works fine until it tries to install grub. This is using nvidia raid built into the motherboard (it worked fine with ubuntu 9.04 64 bit).

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Jonathan Dawson (jmdawson2) wrote on 2009-11-08:

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Jonathan Dawson (jmdawson2) wrote on 2009-11-08:

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Huuanito (jonnykent) wrote on 2009-11-20:

I see in syslog you posted that the instaler is uninstalling grub2 but you aren't getting legacy grub installed in it's place, maybe you aren't online during the install?
here's the relevant part:

Nov 8 15:30:23 ubuntu grub-installer: (Reading database ...
Nov 8 15:30:23 ubuntu grub-installer: 89968 files and directories currently installed.)
Nov 8 15:30:23 ubuntu grub-installer: Removing grub-pc ...
Nov 8 15:30:23 ubuntu grub-installer: Purging configuration files for grub-pc ...
Nov 8 15:30:24 ubuntu grub-installer: Processing triggers for man-db ...
Nov 8 15:30:26 ubuntu ubiquity: Reading package lists...
Nov 8 15:30:26 ubuntu ubiquity:
Nov 8 15:30:26 ubuntu ubiquity: Building dependency tree...
Nov 8 15:30:26 ubuntu ubiquity: Reading state information...
Nov 8 15:30:26 ubuntu ubiquity: Package grub is not available, but is referred to by another package.
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-07-28

tags:	added: ubiquity-2.0.6
tags:	added: karmic

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-08-03: Traceback

Exception during installation:
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2430, in <module>
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: install.run()
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 459, in run
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: self.configure_bootloader()
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1801, in configure_bootloader
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Nov 8 15:30:58 ubuntu python: