Ubuntu 22.04.3 Installer crash

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I note that similar issues have been reported well in the past, the most recent in 2018, so I have make a new report.

I have a four drive system, sda 1 is root (/), sdb is home (/home) sdc is backup (/home/bobbu). A fourth drive is a hdd drive that I use to store images. As an aside, it has outlasted ssd drives of the same age.

The usb install/try stick works fine, 'try' gives me full access to all the hardware and the system works as expected.

When I 'install' all appears to go as expected up to the point where I get a fatal error, 'grub-install failed'

I used 22.04.3 on the install/try usb drive as it was the latest stable version on the Ubuntu.com website. Previously I was running 22.04.4. with the 'pro' and 'esm' free offering. I attempted the re-install following a swap out of a failing drive (sdc) with a new one. During that swap out I also removed a legacy SCSI card as no other hardware used it.

I have reset the BIOS to 'optimised defaults'

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubiquity 22.04.20
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-26.26~22.04.1-generic 6.2.13
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CasperVersion: 1.470.2
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Mar 2 09:42:28 2024
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed maybe-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20230807.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)