[Bug 1656486] Re: installer crashed while attempting write grub to disk

[A.]

I did some more testing. The bug was the result of the flash drive I
used rather than any of the hard drives. After some additional drives
from other brands I was still getting this error. I rebooted from a live
CD instead and was able to install and I did not get any errors when
running gparted. Consider this issue resolved (unless someone wants to
try and resolve the USB flash drive issue).

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Title:
  installer crashed while attempting write grub to disk

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I connected a clean new hard disk to my new laptop and during the
  install, specifically when it tried to write grub to the disk, the
  installer crashes.

  I investigated a bit more by replacing the disk with an identical new
  disk thinking maybe the disk was bad. Same thing happened. I then ran
  gparted and got this error:

  When I run gparted it reports "The driver descriptor says the physical
  block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes."

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: ubiquity 16.10.14
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.379
  Date: Sat Jan 14 00:20:17 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=unknown
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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