[Bug 893805] Re: Live CD installer crashes after failing to install grub

[Brian Murray]

>From the syslog file the exact error message:

Nov 22 21:33:08 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sdb1: msdos
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed package that matches grub
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed package that matches grub-legacy
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed package that matches grub-efi
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed package that matches grub-efi-amd64-bin
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed package that matches grub-efi-amd64
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed package that matches grub-efi-ia32-bin
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed package that matches grub-efi-ia32
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda1'
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda1"
Nov 22 21:33:13 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: Attempting to install GRUB to a partition-less disk or to a partition.  This is a BAD idea..
Nov 22 21:33:13 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.
Nov 22 21:33:13 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda1"' failed.


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Title:
  Live CD installer crashes after failing to install grub

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1. Booted amd64 live cd.
  2. Installed lvm2 by running "sudo apt-get install lvm2" (I am installing to existing lvm device).
  3. Run installer, installing / on lvm, /boot on /dev/sdb1 and bootloader on /dev/sda1
  4. Get error installing bootloader
  5. Installer reports crash

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Tue Nov 22 22:35:01 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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