Comment 11 for bug 1873128

re-try, same (d755-5) box using 2020-04-16 daily focal ISO

Install / to sda9 (no format), /home to sda8 (no format). Calamares at first wanted me to select partitions on /dev/fd0, I changed to sda.. however I noted in Overview it stated

"Install Lubuntu on ext4 system partition /dev/sda9
Set up ext4 partition /dev/sda8 with mount point /home.
Install boot loader on /dev/fd0"

I've done 3 installs before today on this box; no issues with /dev/fd0; the difference in this install was floppy was inserted in the drive. In prior tests reported here I ejected floppy after boot or before clicking install. This time I did not.

When installer got to boot loader step, floppy LED came on & I could hear the floppy drive write data & skip to next track, and click-click as it moved between tracks.

Eventually it came to error message

"Boost.Python error in job "bootloader".
Command 'grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --force /dev/fd0' returned non-zero exit status 1.
Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: File system `fat' doesn't support embedding. grub-install: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.

Traceback:
File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 457, in run
    prepare_bootloader(fw_type)

  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 429, in prepare_bootloader
    install_grub(efi_directory, fw_type)

  File "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/calamares/modules/bootloader/main.py", line 336, in install_grub
    check_target_env_call([libcalamares.job.configuration["grubInstall"],

  File "<string>", line 6, in <module>"

(FYI: I looked at floppy in `pcmanfm-qt` and it appears to still have only 1994 wp files on it)