Comment 4 for bug 893805

Having reviewed the logs, it is clear that I was doing something dumb in trying to install grub on /dev/sda1 (a partition) instead of /dev/sda (my first hard disk) (See last line of comment #3).

However, I would still expect the installer to handle this gracefully, without crashing, so this bug still stands.

Perhaps the installer could even to provide some helpful message to set unobservant users like me on the correct path e.g. "Are you sure you want to install grub on a partition, instead of the disk?".