Grub installer unable to install to any drive/partition

[kyleabaker]

Grub installer failed during Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 installation.

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: Wed Jul 18 22:40:09 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

I UbiquitySyslog.txt:

Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1735, in <module>
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 204, in run
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1013, in configure_bootloader
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Jul 19 02:39:59 ubuntu plugininstall.py:
Jul 19 02:40:08 ubuntu ubiquity:
Jul 19 02:40:08 ubuntu ubiquity: ** (apport-gtk:26665): WARNING **: The connection is closed