Grub Failed to Install

Bug #1649118 reported by JD R
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I tried installing Xubuntu over an existing Xubuntu install. By default it tried to install grub to SDA, even though I need it installed on SDE. When I tried selecting SDE when it crashed, it refused to install to SDE either.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: ubiquity 16.10.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.379
Date: Sun Dec 11 13:50:22 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/xubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash --- cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt persistent
LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=unknown
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
JD R (eightbitlink) wrote :
Revision history for this message
apt-ghetto (apt-ghetto) wrote :

Your disk has GPT as partition table and does not contain a "bios_grub"-partition to install Grub

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for grub-installer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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