grub-install hung at "Looking for other operating systems..."

[Chase Douglas]

Binary package hint: grub2

I booted from the latest Lucid Netbook iso today. Everything seemed good, so I went to install using ubiquity. The installation went smoothly until the grub installation at the end. It hung with the caption "Looking for other operating systems..." for over 30 minutes.

Note that I was attempting to wipe the hard disk clean during the installation (the new netbook shipped with Windows 7).

[Chase Douglas (chasedouglas)]

This new system is confirmed defective (stuck F12 key). I have no clue whether this could cause the issue I saw, but I'm invalidating the bug anyways because it will be too difficult to determine the root cause with the defective keyboard.

[Steve Grecni (gid-gifpaste)]

I'm actually getting the same thing with my lucid lynx alpha3 install on an IBM T61. For what it's worth, I've had recent hangs with grub in debian as well. Removing the irqpoll option from my boot (left over from a different mobo that died) fixed the hang. Others have said it's driver issues as well.

I know this laptop is good, as I've had the Windows 7 RC on it for many months.

[Steve Grecni (gid-gifpaste)]

Killing off grub-installer seemed to help the process along, giving me the option to install the boot loader on /dev/sda, but now it's stuck: Running "update-grub", which I assume is doing the same kind of scan that caused grub-installer to hang.

[Eric Benson (eric-a-benson)]

Confirmed the same problem installing Netbook Edition 10.04 Alpha 3 on an ASUS Eee PC 1005HA

[Vjekoslav Brajkovic (balkan)]

Same problem here.

[Vjekoslav Brajkovic (balkan)]

Update: Issue seems to be gone after replacing the disk.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This was bug 528073, now fixed in Lucid.

[malleswar (malleswarpayyavula)]

i am also dual booting ubuntu all went well but it struck at looking for other operating systems and it didnt install please resolve this