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Problem Description
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Installation goes smoothly, until it reaches grub installation, and fails with fatal error there.
Machine Type = pio-firestone
---boot type---
QEMU direct boot kernel/initrd
---Kernel cmdline used to launch install---
kexec -l /root/vmlinux.
kexec -e
== Comment: # - Venkat R. B <email address hidden> - 2015-08-14 08:08:41 ==
I am trying to install Ubuntu14.04 on the firestone machine on a RAID1 array, configured with software raid.
Installation goes on smoothly till its reaches grub loader and fails. Below I have pasted the error.
?? [!!] Install the GRUB boot loader on a hard disk ??
???????????? ? ?????????
? ? Unable to install GRUB in /dev/md0p1 ? ?
? ? Executing 'grub-install /dev/md0p1' failed. ? ?
? ? ? ?
? Running "? This is a fatal error. ? ?
? ? ? ?
???????????? <Go Back> <Continue> ? ?????????
? ?
== Comment: # - Mauricio Faria De Oliveira <email address hidden> - 2015-08-20 09:31:11 ==
grub-installer pieces from syslog
Aug 19 11:07:43 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/md0p1'
Aug 19 11:07:43 grub-installer: info: grub-install does not support --no-floppy
Aug 19 11:07:43 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install --force "/dev/md0p1"
Aug 19 11:07:43 grub-installer: Installing for powerpc-ieee1275 platform.
Aug 19 11:08:01 grub-installer: grub-install: error: failed to copy Grub to the PReP partition.
Aug 19 11:08:01 grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --force "/dev/md0p1"' failed.
and the "error:" message 'failed to copy Grub to the PReP partition.' is not generated by the grub-installer script itself [1], so probably coming down from grub2.
I'd suggest to either involve our grub2 guy (not sure if available), or mirroring to Canonical.
[1] http://