[Bug 1261112] Re: grub-installer fail

[Phillip Susi]

What virtual drive?

You might try setting your bios to boot in legacy mode instead of EFI.

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Title:
  grub-installer fail

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

Bug description:
  -Trying to partition out a section for windows7 because i can not get that bootable disk to work, enters directly into efi.
  -So I installed Ubuntu in a smaller partition(ext3 /) right behind the efi boot loader. Added in swap behind the Ubuntu partition and finally my partition for windows(FAT32 /windows). Made sure all my space allocations were correct by Ubuntu's website and then tryied to install. After a little wait it finally came to a crash saying grub could not be installed and without grub it would not boot.

  Ubuntu 12.04LTS

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.26
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-29.42~precise1-generic 3.8.13.5
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-29-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.315.1
  Date: Sun Dec 15 02:06:49 2013
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=unknown
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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