Ubuntu
grub-installer package

Installer crashed

Bug #990282 reported by Werner Kuballa
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Installation:
- /dev/sda
-- /dev/sda1 = /boot
-- /dev/sda2 = luks formatted partition SysCrypt
- /dev/mapper/SysCrypt = device for volume group SysVG
- /dev/mapper/SysVG-SysSwap = 4GiB for swap
- /dev/mapper/SysVG-SysRoot = 16GiB for root
- /dev/mapper/SysVG-SysHome = 36GiB for /home

Installation reported "unable to install grub on /dev/sda"
and reported then "installation crashed"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.315
Date: Fri Apr 27 20:49:25 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Werner Kuballa (wkuballa) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Your disk is partitioned with GPT but you are booting in bios mode. This requires you to create a 1 mb bios_grub partition on the disk.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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