[Bug 666200] Re: Unbootable computer is Ubiquity crashes after grub install?

[giragasira]

Hi, I`ve a problem with the grub... Before was installed an Hackintosh
with Ubuntu 12.04 by partition. Than was collapsed and I put in only
Ubuntu 12.04 without partition in all hardisk, but I must reinstall many
times `couse simply fade out... If someone can help me please, now I
can`t neither install. Thanks

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Title:
  Unbootable computer is Ubiquity crashes after grub install?

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I helped someone who wanted to dual boot his EeePC with Windows 7.
  The netbook froze during the installation. No way to install Ubuntu, there seems to be a hardware compatibility problem.

  Anyway, the reason for this failure is not the problem here.

  It seems (but I'm not sure, please correct me) that grub is installed before the system is copied in the partitions ?
  So as the installation failed, the computer was unusable after reboot. I guess the MBR was pointing to the partition where Grub was supposed to be, but as the installation failed, it was pointing on nothing... 

  From what I remember, it used to be the opposite before: create the
  partitions, copy the files, THEN install grub. This way, if the
  installation fails, the computer would still boot on the other
  operating system.

  No need to explain that for this ex-new Ubuntu user, it's not a
  pleasant experience... Maybe i'm wrong and what happened is totally
  unrelated, but if that's really the case, it's a bit too risky... If I
  was not here to assist him, he would have brought the computer back to
  the computer shop to have it fixed. Surely not a great advertisement
  for Ubuntu to mess a computer like that.

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