Comment 18 for bug 192938

FYI... I have been facing the same issue installing Hardy Beta Alternate and Server Editions on an OQO Model 02, VirtualBox, and in VMWare Server.

I've successfully been able to work around the grub installation failure in all cases by doing the following:

1. When the installer goes to the red screen regarding GRUB faling to install, I hit ok until it takes me back to the installer menu asking whether to install GRUB, Lilo, etc.

2. Alt+F2 into another terminal window, and hit enter at prompt.

3. chroot /target

4. "apt-get install grub" which then installs a number of dependencies, and also generates the initramfs images, etc.

5. After GRUB successfully installs, ALT+F1 bank to the menu, and choose to "Install Grub". It's already installed by now the installer gets further than it did before. It also asks whether you want to install GRUB to the MBR which I accept.

The installer completes, and CD ejects, and GRUB is installed without any apparent issues.

I have not tried a newer (daily/nightly) install CD, so I'm not sure if this has been corrected already.