Comment 31 for bug 14135

I have found an workaround for this problem!

My dad woke me up this morning so that i'll install kubuntu on his lenovo laptop running vista.
Booted up the hardy live cd, started installation, repartitioned/reformated everything to ext3 so i got rid of vista, but at 94% i got a fatal error about grub not being able to install. Tried again, same error.
Reinstalled without grub but then i couldn't load the OS.
Googled and played around looking for a solution.

Running the live cd, i tried fdisk -l in the terminal as seen that there was an extra small NTFS partition that was first on the hdd, as sda1, that was otherwise hidden in the kubuntu partitioner; wtf?! thought my root is hda1...
So i actually reinstalled making a <b>new allocation for the whole hdd</b> and rebuilding the partitions once again, installation run smooth this time! Everything looks as it should now in fdisk -l

Hope this helps you out! Cheers!