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Grub error code 10 during 6.06 LiveCD install

Bug #54978 reported by Spaldini on 2006-08-02

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #47848: should warn at partitioning stage if /boot is on XFS. Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Windows XP NTFS partition on hda1, trying to install Ubuntu on fresh XFS hda2 partition.
Hardware is a 1ghz PIII laptop 384mb ram, onboard SiS video (shared memory), 20gb hd, had to start Ubuntu LiveCD with vga=771 switch.
Install crashes at grub-installer.

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Spaldini (spaldini) wrote on 2006-08-02:

/var/log/installer/syslog Edit (14.8 KiB, text/plain)

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Spaldini (spaldini) wrote on 2006-08-02:

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Spaldini (spaldini) wrote on 2006-08-02:

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2006-08-02:

Thanks for your report. Due to some reliability problems with GRUB and XFS, you need to use a non-XFS root filesystem or create a non-XFS /boot filesystem. The fact that the partitioner doesn't warn you about this up-front is also bug 47848, and is fixed in dapper-updates.