11.04 install crashed when installing GRUB

[Nathan Kwarta]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

11.04 to be installed alongside Windows 7 on a Dell Studio i3 laptop.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Exception during installation:
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1547, in <module>
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 56, in wrapper
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 197, in run
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 853, in configure_bootloader
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Jun 17 20:21:10 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The grub-installer bits from the syslog file:

Jun 17 20:20:39 ubuntu grub-installer: info: architecture: amd64/generic
Jun 17 20:20:43 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for /dev/sda5: msdos
Jun 17 20:20:45 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub
Jun 17 20:20:45 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-legacy
Jun 17 20:20:45 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi
Jun 17 20:20:45 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-amd64
Jun 17 20:20:45 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there's no installed package matching grub-efi-ia32
Jun 17 20:20:46 ubuntu ubiquity: Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be. This might mean that another operating system believes the disk is smaller. Fix, by moving the backup to the end (and removing the old backup)?
Jun 17 20:20:46 ubuntu ubiquity: Warning: Not all of the space available to /dev/mmcblk0 appears to be used, you can fix the GPT to use all of the space (an extra 1 blocks) or continue with the current setting?
Jun 17 20:20:46 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/mmcblk0'
Jun 17 20:20:46 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Jun 17 20:20:46 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/mmcblk0"
Jun 17 20:20:49 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!.
Jun 17 20:20:49 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.
Jun 17 20:20:49 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/mmcblk0"' failed.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This may be a duplicate of bug 268863.

[apt-ghetto (apt-ghetto)]

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Natty Narwhal reached EOL on October 28, 2012.
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