Ubiquity crashes while trying to install grub, then update-grub crashes afterward. Grub looks to be installed in the terminal, but won't boot Ubuntu.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Sorry in advance if I don't provide all the necessary info, I'm new to Linux.
Anyway, I've tried multiple times to install Ubuntu 9.04 off the CD onto a 250 gig SATA drive that I had previously wiped clean with DBAN, and everything goes swimmingly until the very end. The installer tells me something like "Fatal error: could not configure grub" and quits, instead booting into the liveCD version. When I reboot without the cd, it just goes into grub, and nothing I've tried can get it any further.
Everything seems to be on the hard drive when I look in the file manager, and grub works through the terminal. I don't know what to do with grub at all, though. The reason I post this here instead of looking for help online is because I had a more linux-familiar friend try to fix it, and after about 4 hours he gave up, prompting me to think there's something more than just me not knowing how to use it - but I apologize if that's not the case. Also, I put it as a new issue because though some others looked similar, the ones I saw were either solved by older releases of Ubuntu, or they only mentioned an issue with the installer OR grub, not both. If I missed the right one, please direct me to it.
Some history: this is a laptop that originally had Vista on it. A program that I used frequently gave an error when I tried to run it again, so I thought I'd reboot - and after trying to reboot I never saw the Vista desktop again. This is a laptop that came with Vista preinstalled, so I have no cd. I burnt a vista repair cd that did absolutely nothing - the program I burnt it with claimed it was bootable, but I couldn't get it to boot. I have an XP cd that I tried, but apparently the XP install won't recognize SATA drives, so I decided to try linux. This same CD installed without a hitch on an old Thinkpad, so I don't think it's any fault with the CD.
ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/
InterpreterPath: /target/bin/bash
MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
Package: grub 0.97-29ubuntu53
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /bin/bash /usr/sbin/
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: grub
StacktraceTop:
sh_mktmpfd ()
?? ()
do_redirections ()
?? ()
execute_
Title: update-grub crashed with SIGSEGV in sh_mktmpfd()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:
StacktraceTop: sh_mktmpfd () command_ internal ()
do_redirections ()
?? ()
execute_
execute_command ()