install crash - could not make grub

[garypeg]

installing onto an external hard drive, reinstalling over 32 bit version with a 64 bit

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340
Date: Thu May 1 10:58:44 2014
InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=linux
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Well this is interesting:

grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot open `/dev/sdb': Read-only file system.

I have no idea how that can possibly happen.

[garypeg (pegngary)]

Oh, just like me to invent a new problem! By way everything working
fine. B refers to an external hard drive, with 2 partitions. One
contains a 32 bit version of 14.04 on which I installed the 64 bit. The
other is just a data partition.

garyk

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Phillip Susi <email address hidden> wrote:

> Well this is interesting:
>
> grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot open `/dev/sdb': Read-only
> file system.
>
> I have no idea how that can possibly happen.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1314935
>
> Title:
> install crash - could not make grub
>
> Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> installing onto an external hard drive, reinstalling over 32 bit
> version with a 64 bit
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: ubiquity 2.18.7
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
> Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
> Architecture: amd64
> CasperVersion: 1.340
> Date: Thu May 1 10:58:44 2014
> InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent
> file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet
> splash -- maybe-ubiquity
> LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=linux
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: grub-installer
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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