[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

[melchiaros]

In Syslog from comment 10 (from error logs 1 tar gz):

Oct 14 13:34:13 ubuntu ubiquity: File descriptor 3 (pipe:[34046]) leaked on lvdisplay invocation. Parent PID 22139: /bin/sh
Oct 14 13:34:13 ubuntu ubiquity:   Volume group "sdb" not found
Oct 14 13:34:13 ubuntu ubiquity:   Skipping volume group sdb
Oct 14 13:34:13 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sdb1: msdos
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-legacy which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-efi which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-efi-amd64-bin which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-efi-amd64 which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-efi-amd64-signed which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-efi-ia32-bin which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:14 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove grub-efi-ia32 which isn't installed
Oct 14 13:34:15 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Oct 14 13:34:15 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Oct 14 13:34:15 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --force "/dev/sda"
Oct 14 13:34:15 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: warning: this GPT partition label contains no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible.
Oct 14 13:34:15 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-bios-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.
Oct 14 13:34:15 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --force "/dev/sda"' failed.
Oct 14 13:35:38 ubuntu kernel: [  505.918019] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

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Title:
  Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Having run 12.10 beta 2 in a KVM I decided to install the latest daily
  build for real only to encounter a fatal error during installation.

  The install seems to run fine until suddenly reporting: Executing
  'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error.

  I have 2 drives - /dev/sda is a 3TB hard disk, and /dev/sdb is a 128GB
  SSD. I was installing onto /dev/sdb so got a bit freaked out that it
  was trying to install a boot loader to /dev/sda.

  Manually telling the installer to use /dev/sdb instead did not work
  either, so have a system without boot loader.

  Am currently downloading beta 2 again to attempt an install with that
  image (to determine if it's something that's gone wrong since beta 2
  or whether it's a hardware compatibility issue). Previous OS on the
  SSD was 12.04, but I chose a complete re-install replacing the OS
  rather than an upgrade.

  ATTACHMENTS:
  1) cat /proc/version_signature > version.log : Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  2) sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log

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