Grub installer failed on fresh install of 9.10
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
The system I am installing to has 2 hard drives, and my partitioning is:
/dev/sda1 /boot 100M
/dev/sda2 swap 2000M
/dev/sda3 / remainder of 80GB
/dev/sdb1 /home 80GB
This is the error message I received:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/
main(
File "/usr/lib/
install(
File "/usr/lib/
ret = wizard.run()
File "/usr/lib/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
(ret, realtb))
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
install.run()
File "/usr/share/
self.
File "/usr/share/
"GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
With some additional tinkering, I've found a few more bits of information. Using fdisk -l I found that /dev/sda1 was not set as bootable at the time of the failure. So I manually set it as bootable. Still failed. I recreated the partition and set it as bootable manually, then in the installation told the partitioner to not format that partition. Still failed. Finally, I told it to reformat as ext3 instead of ext2, and it installed successfully (as far as I can tell at this point).