[Bug 1482867] Re: Crashes when installing boot loader

[Phillip Susi]

You tried to install grub to your primary hard disk ( /dev/sda ), which
is partitioned using GPT, but you do not have an EFI system.  This is
only possible if you create a 1 mb bios_grub partition on that drive.
As an alternative, you can choose to install grub to one of your other
drives that is partitioned using dos/mbr and make sure your bios is set
to boot from that drive.


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

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Title:
  Crashes when installing boot loader

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The failure to install the boot loader appears on both 14.04.3 and
  15.04. There has been no problems previously, so the problem might be
  a failed hard drive (I'm speculating here).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.18.8.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-25.26~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.340.2
  Date: Sat Aug  8 14:43:00 2015
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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