installer crashed, probably due to grub trying to install to the wrong disk

Bug #1396183 reported by Timo Aaltonen
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Bug Description

test-install on hw that has a mmc card built in and which seems to be the first disk, installer tried to install to it but I wanted to install to the ssd instead. So it ran fine until grub install fails since it tried to install to the wrong disk (not ssd).

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 25 16:40:04 2014
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash nomodeset=1
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI.UTF-8
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote : Traceback

Exception during installation:
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1770, in <module>
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: install.run()
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 78, in wrapper
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: func(self)
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 241, in run
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1026, in configure_bootloader
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py: ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Nov 25 14:23:21 ubuntu /plugininstall.py:

tags: added: installer-crash
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