Ubiquity stuck at "Where are you" - grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1

[Barneedhar]

Started Ubiquity and partitioned the hard disk. Ubiquity hangs after asking for the location.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: ubiquity 2.12.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.326
Date: Thu Oct 4 14:41:21 2012
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Beta amd64 (20121003)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

In UbiquitySyslog.txt:

Oct 4 06:36:57 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.
Oct 4 06:37:50 ubuntu ubiquity[9014]: debconffilter_done: ubiquity.components.install (current: ubi-timezone)

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

This is form the end of the log.

It seems to be more a problem with grub than with the time zone.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.