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package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

Bug #486362 reported by Gauthier on 2009-11-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #500791: package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1. Edit Remove

This bug affects 8 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	grub2 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: grub2

When I reinstall grub2

ProblemType: Package
AptOrdering:
grub-pc: Install
grub-pc: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 21 18:46:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: grub2
Title: package grub-pc 1.97~beta4-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Gauthier (vive-gauthier) wrote on 2009-11-21:

Dependencies.txt Edit (862 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (54.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (193.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Frédéric Stemmelin (frederic-stemmelin) wrote on 2009-11-21:

Hello, i have the same problem, after i was trying to install Fedora 12 64bits on my first drive with GPT partitioning scheme with Ubuntu 9.10 64bits already installed on /dev/sda1 (i used Gparted to create GPT partitions).
I asked Fedora 12 grub to install in /dev/sda3 and NOT in /dev/sda, but i was unable to boot computer anymore after this.
Then i tried to reinstall grub-pc into /dev/sda, with livecd command "grub-setup -d /media/Karmic/boot/grub/ -m /media/Karmic/boot/grub/device.map /dev/sda" and got this error message:

grub-setup: warn: This GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition; embedding won't be possible!
grub-setup: warn: Embedding is not possible. GRUB can only be installed in this setup by using blocklists. However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and its use is discouraged.
grub-setup: error: If you really want blocklists, use --force.

I decided then to reinstall Karmic with livecd, and got a grub crash once trying to update whole system, with similar error message related to "GPT partition label has no BIOS Boot Partition" ...