[Bug 1404732] Re: End of Installation 14.10. 'Unable to install in /dev/sda (or any other disk) Executin 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error.

[Phillip Susi]

Grub can not be installed to sda because it has no partitions on it.
The simplest thing to do is to just create a partition on the disk.  If
you want to install grub to a different disk ( and configure your bios
to boot from it ) then you have to choose the something else option and
select that disk first.  Trying to change the disk after it has failed
once will only fail again due to a different known bug.


** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  End of Installation 14.10. 'Unable to install in /dev/sda (or any
  other disk) Executin 'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal
  error.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Also tried /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, along with some of the individuall
  partitions on these disks. All to no avail.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.20.0
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.345
  Date: Sun Dec 21 21:15:32 2014
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release i386 (20141022.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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