Comment 2 for bug 505396

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()

Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb'
Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy "/dev/sdb"
Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: You shouldn't call /sbin/grub-install. Please call /usr/sbin/grub-install instead!
Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer:
Jan 10 00:23:39 ubuntu grub-installer: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
Jan 10 00:23:40 ubuntu grub-installer: /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
Jan 10 00:23:40 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "/dev/sdb"' failed.

This looks quite likely to be fixed by 9.10 with GRUB 2. Would you mind retesting?