Comment 16 for bug 430333

I installed the 20090917 daily build. First the bad news:

When I installed using the full drive, the installation failed, though there was a difference -- at the end of the installation sequence, it put up a dialog saying
  "Executing upgrade-grub failed. This is a fatal error."
Sure enough, I got the rescue:grub> prompt.

Here's the partition map for what failed (no changes to suggested map):
/dev/sda1 30902 MB (28.8 GB) ext4 /
/dev/sda5 1373 MB (1.3 GB) swap

SO, on the second attempt, I used manual partitioning.

/dev/sda1 30000 MB ext4 /
/dev/sda5 1500 MB swap
free space 773 MB

*** why when you use the manual partitioner, does it take time to create the filesystem, check the filesystem, RESIZE the filesystem (??), and THEN when the installer starts up it says it's CREATING the filesystem AGAIN??? ***

At the end of this install it reported success. Then after clicking the restart button, there was a strange loop where it switched between the desktop and the console frequently -- X seemed to be stopping and respawning -- maybe 20 times. Then finally whatever it was trying to kill off died and it restarted. Then the first boot was strange, too, with an unusually long blank screen while the SDD had its busy light on.

Subsequent boots have been more normal.

I have not yet run fsck to check this filesystem.