installer crashes on attempted install to mirrored drives

[mjflory]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When I attempted to install Linux Mint 8 x86_64 ( based on Ubuntu 9.10) onto the second 500GB SATA drive of an HP dc7800, Ubiquity crashed (and the Grub installer failed). The drive was mirrored from the first drive in the original (Ubuntu 8.04) setup but both drives were seen by the system; I think I'd successfully enabled mirroring but never got the system to use the md device, mounting the drive using its original device name instead. No partitions were marked as RAID (all were type 0x83), but as the mirroring appeared to work I used the system in that configuration.

[mjflory (michael-flory)]

I should mention that the installation succeeded after I disconnected the first drive and attached the second drive to SATA port 0. While I was doing this drive switching (after trying a simple swap) the motherboard of the machine appears to have failed, so the successful install was done on a second machine of the same model. (I transferred the only other addition to the machine, a second network card, to the new machine before performing the successful install.)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 2444, in <module>
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: install.run()
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 459, in run
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: self.configure_bootloader()
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1801, in configure_bootloader
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Jan 11 18:52:02 mint python:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The grub-installer error messages are:

Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '(hd0)'
Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer: grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.
Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer:
Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer: Auto-detection of a filesystem module failed.
Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer: Please specify the module with the option `--modules' explicitly.
Jan 11 18:26:22 mint grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"' failed.

[apt-ghetto (apt-ghetto)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Karmic Koala reached EOL on April 30, 2011.
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