Mint 11 installer crashed when "installing grub2 package"

[Tobias M]

 I am trying to install Mint 11 on a ThinkPag Edge:
AMD Fusin E-350 (2x1.6Ghz)
ATI Radeon 6850
4 GB DDR3 RAM
320GB Sata

I am instlaling it from a 1Gb USB flash drive (since this laptop has no optical drive). I am using the nocodecs 64bit cd-iso.

The installation is running fine until it says
"installing the grub2 package..."
Then it crashes immediately and a popup says
"Installation crahed" and tells me to report the bug here.

Installing grub2 before the installation changes nothing, even though it seems to work...

sudo apt-get install grub2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  grub2
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 84 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/60.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 127 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package grub2.
(Reading database ... 121245 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking grub2 (from .../grub2_1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3-1mint1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up grub2 (1.99~rc1-13ubuntu3-1mint1) ...

/var/log/syslog is attached; /var/log/partman comes later.

[Tobias M (i-tm)]

Oh, well it didnt take my attachment. So here is /var/log/syslog

[Tobias M (i-tm)]

And this is /var/log/partman

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1551, in <module>
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: install.run()
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: func(self)
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 201, in run
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 844, in configure_bootloader
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Dec 24 21:47:53 mint plugininstall.py:

[dino99 (9d9)]

natty have reached EOL now