Comment 11 for bug 385995

I tried to perform an install of Karmic Alpha 2 with the desktop i386 CD and suffered from this bug, and using the boot-time option "grub-installer/grub2_instead_of_grub_legacy=false" listed in the release notes did not work, unfortunately. I have a dual-boot configuration with Windows 7 RC on my Inspiron 510m laptop.

If any users are reading this a) who cannot install via the instructions listed in the Alpha 2 release notes, and b) do not wish to wait until alpha 3, there is a way to get it working:

When you login to the live environment, open a terminal and perform the following steps:
$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install ubiquity ubiquity-frontend-gtk ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork

This will upgrade the ubiquity installer to the fixed version within your live environment. You can now run the installer and it should hopefully complete GRUB2 installation for dual-boot systems successfully.