GRUB install step failed with installing Ubuntu 11.10 along side of Windows

[Raymond Michael Attila Erdey]

GRUB install step failed.
Wanted to install Ubuntu 11.10 on a PC that Already had Windows and so dual boot between them.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Sat Nov 12 17:44:17 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1641, in <module>
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 55, in wrapper
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: func(self)
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 199, in run
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.configure_bootloader()
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 955, in configure_bootloader
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: "GrubInstaller failed with code %d" % ret)
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py: InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
Nov 12 17:43:40 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Nov 12 17:17:28 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/ida/c0d0'
Nov 12 17:17:29 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Nov 12 17:17:29 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/ida/c0d0"
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn:
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer:
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer: Your embedding area is unusually small. core.img won't fit in it.
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer: .
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error:
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer:
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer: .
Nov 12 17:17:35 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy --force "/dev/ida/c0d0"' failed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

11.10 has reached end of life and is no longer supported.