Comment 37 for bug 14135

Similar experience here. When attempting to install with a separate /home partition I cannot under any circumstances get grub to install. Error 15 all over the place, can't chroot into the installation via live CD due to "cannot resolve host ubuntu" error, even manually creating all the files in the /boot and /boot/grub directories results in not bootable system due to grub error 15. The installation doesn't even create the valid initrd.img file or a grub directory!

The only way I've been able to install from the xubuntu live CD is to have it wipe the entire hard drive, removing my /home partition. I cannot install the OS with the advanced partitioning option at all.

I've not been able to get it to work and I'm not afraid to tweak the crap out of this machine as there's nothing vital on it. I'm also a more advanced user, and although I'm new to linux I'm not afraid of the command line, but have not been able to work around this.

Critical bug. Results in OS not being bootable, why is this not fixed? The fix should go into the Live CD, since that's where the problem is, it's that serious.