Crash during grub-install

[Vincent van Adrighem]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Used the live CD to install Ubuntu 6.06 on my Dell latitude D620. During grub-install it crashes (tried twice). Install on /dev/sda6 (xfs) with sda1 as swap.

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 4864 36965565 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 263 1307 8393931 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 1308 2352 8393931 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 2353 3397 8393931 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 3398 4864 11783646 83 Linux

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/gtkui.py", line 266, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 741, in process_step
    self.mountpoints_to_summary()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1029, in mountpoints_to_summary
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 538, 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

[Vincent van Adrighem (adrighem)]

I didn't use the partition manager (I prepartitioned the disk)

[Vincent van Adrighem (adrighem)]

When chrooted into the target system, I get the following result:
grub-install /dev/sda6
Could not find device for /boot: Not found or not a block device.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

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.