installer crashed while attempting write grub to disk

[Christopher Waid]

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)

[A. (1n3bw)]

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).