ubiquity crash while installing grub

[steve.horsley]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Karmic Koala Alpha3. Installer crashed while installing GRUB. I think it was looking for other operating systems at the time. Actually, every installer has done this for a couple of years or more on my system. I suspect it may be because I have one / partition housed on JFS. Here is my fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb8000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 29 232911 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 30 2579 20482345+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 2580 19457 135572535 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2580 3854 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3855 5129 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 5130 5766 5116671 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 5767 19457 109972926 83 Linux

and blkid:
/dev/sda1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="DellUtility" UUID="07D9-0603" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda2: UUID="E0D4E1AED4E186DE" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="f00b4cfc-e4ed-4fa7-a9bb-6fc2c86f9f10" TYPE="jfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="a9536fa0-93cb-4aa8-8566-ecd184a9ed1d" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda7: TYPE="swap" UUID="27539b62-3acd-454c-8ce8-b5e3dc01f7c6"
/dev/sda8: UUID="f59c8794-0b38-4d7b-933b-eb3dfb3784b8" TYPE="jfs"

GRUB was in fact succesfully installed (using sda6 as root), but didn't list sda5 as an operating system option.
I was able to boot and edit brub.cfg by hand to add the sda5 boot option.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

If you can reproduce this, please attach /var/log/syslog.

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