Grub installer failed on fresh install of 9.10

[tarlos25]

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/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 457, in <module>
    main(oem_config)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 442, in main
    install(args[0], query=options.query)
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity", line 245, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 440, in run
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde_ui.py", line 865, in progress_loop
    (ret, realtb))
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2430, in <module>
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 459, in run
    self.configure_bootloader()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1801, in configure_bootloader
    "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

[tarlos25 (tarlos25)]

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).

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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