Installer crash

Bug #55772 reported by Mats Palmgren
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #46853: grub install fails on EFI Intel Macs. Edit Remove
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ubiquity (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Try to install Kubuntu 6.06 on a Macbook Pro (Intel)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 130, in ?
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 55, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 311, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 734, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 1047, in mountpoints_to_summary
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 524, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s; see "
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1; see /var/log/installer/syslog and /var/log/syslog

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Mats Palmgren (mats-palmgren) wrote :
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Mats Palmgren (mats-palmgren) wrote :
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Mats Palmgren (mats-palmgren) wrote :
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Mateusz Drożdżyński (matid) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. Please await the anwer from Ubiquity developers.

Changed in ubiquity:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

This is the underlying error:

Aug 9 11:13:18 ubuntu grub-installer: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.
Aug 9 11:13:18 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"' failed.

I'm not sure exactly what problem this is likely to be as yet.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Oh, it's a MacBook. We don't quite support those yet ... this is bug 46853.

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