installation say complete but at the same time fatal error while creating bootloader.

Bug #1536791 reported by Anka Babele
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

installation say complete but at the same time fatal error while creating boot loader.
I tried to reinstall Ubuntu after I was not allowed to update (it said there is not enough space which is not true so I though the installation was corrupted and reinstallation was needed)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubiquity 2.18.8.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-25.26~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt2
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-25-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.340.2
Date: Thu Jan 21 22:19:27 2016
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 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20150805)
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)

Revision history for this message
Anka Babele (dabele) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Your disk is partitioned with GPT but you are in a bios booting computer. This requires you to create a 1 mb bios_grub partition.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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