[Bug 1028604] Re: grub does not install during install (manual pratitioning) of Quantal Alpha 3

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 987418 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/987418

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 987418
   manual partitioner: /dev/sdb (installation media) selected by default as device for boot loader installation

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Title:
  grub does not install during install (manual pratitioning) of Quantal
  Alpha 3

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I was carrying out this test:  http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/226/builds/19358/testcases/1302/results/ on my PC this is my hardware: http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/CarlaSella/lshw and this is the iso image I was testing: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20120724.2/quantal-desktop-amd64.iso.
  During install my hard drive was detected as /dev/sde instead of /dev/sda and this was already reported in bug #1022726, I do not know if the two bugs are related.
  At the end of the installation process I got an error message saying "Unable to install grub on /dev/sde see attached image1 and image2.
  I was asked what to do, so first I tried to input /dev/sda instead of /dev/sde, but got the same error see image3 then I tried to input /dev/sde again but got the same error and finaly I tried to input /dev/sde1 (image4), but I could not get grub installed.
  So I chose to continue without bootloader install and rebooted my PC.
  On reboot I found the prevoius grub bootloader and could start the other version of linux on the /dev/sda1 partition of my PC, but on /dev/sda5, the partition where I chose to install Quantal Alpha3, I am not able to boot unless I modify grub by hand.

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