[Bug 1393924] Re: bootloader failed to install: cant find "/cow"

[Alex J Nicholson]

I tried the process of  creating a partition on the drive that mounted
at "/dev/sda" but the same error occured.  I then also tried installing
the bootloader to "/dev/sdb" and that failed also.  I then tried to
reset my bios settings and that seemed to fix it, I'm not sure what
changed as I just did the "Reset to factory settings" in the bios but
that fixed it.

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Title:
  bootloader failed to install: cant find "/cow"

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

Bug description:
  I attempted to install Ubuntu 14.10 and the installation of the GRUB
  bootloader failed.  I tried to install the bootloader by hand though
  the terminal but got the error that "/cow" could not be found.

  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 x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.345
  Date: Tue Nov 18 19:46:38 2014
  InstallCmdLine: initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (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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