Ubuntu
ubiquity package

Installer Crashes REPEATEDLY "Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)"

Bug #60911 reported by Veteran on 2006-09-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #54164: Failed to install grub on ATA hard disk (laptop). Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

This has happened six times so far, even when I completely wipe and repartition the disk for Win98 (FAT32) and try yet again to reinstall Dapper. It is a long time to wait every time for it to fail. It looks like a lot of users have this problem - not to mention all those with less patience who flick ubuntu and look for something that works.

We're sorry; the installer crashed. Please file a bug report at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+filebug and a developer will attend to the problem as soon as possible. To help the developers understand what went wrong, include the following detail in your bug report, and attach the files /var/log/installer/syslog, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/partman: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 264, in run
    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

ubuntu@ubuntu:/var/log/installer$ cat syslog
Ubiquity 1.0.12
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:23:32 INFO switched to page stepLanguage
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/localechooser']' for ubiquity.components.language.Language
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^languagechooser/language-name
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:23:49 INFO Step_before = stepLanguage
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:23:57 INFO switched to page stepLocation
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:23:57 INFO Step_after = stepLocation
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/tzsetup']' for ubiquity.components.timezone.Timezone
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^time/zone$

(time-admin:6443): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
ALSA lib confmisc.c:672:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1072:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3493:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3962:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2102:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:16 INFO Step_before = stepLocation
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:16 INFO switched to page stepKeyboardConf
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:16 INFO Step_after = stepKeyboardConf
ubiquity: kbd-chooser prepare
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/sh', '-c', '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule; exec /usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser.KbdChooser
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^kbd-chooser/method$, ^console-keymaps.*/keymap$, ERROR
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: us
ubiquity: apply_keyboard: layout us, model pc104
ubiquity: Display map: {u'Swedish': u'se-latin1', u'Icelandic': u'is-latin1', u'Estonian': u'et', u'Romanian': u'ro', u'Italian': u'it', u'Latin American': u'la-latin1', u'Dutch': u'nl', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)': u'br-latin1', u'Belgian': u'be2-latin1', u'Danish': u'dk-latin1', u'Bulgarian': u'bg', u'Turkish (F layout)': u'trfu', u'Hungarian': u'hu', u'Macedonian': u'mk', u'Lithuanian': u'lt', u'French': u'fr-latin9', u'Norwegian': u'no-latin1', u'Slovakian': u'sk-qwerty', u'Russian': u'ru', u'Dvorak': u'dvorak', u'Slovene': u'slovene', u'Finnish': u'fi-latin1', u'British English': u'uk', u'Spanish': u'es', u'Greek': u'gr', u'Canadian French': u'cf', u'Latvian': u'lv-latin4', u'American English': u'us', u'Croatian': u'croat', u'Portuguese': u'pt-latin1', u'Czech': u'cz-lat2', u'Ukrainian': u'ua', u'Japanese': u'jp106', u'Belarusian': u'by', u'Turkish (Q layout)': u'trqu', u'German': u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'Hebrew': u'hebrew', u'Polish': u'pl', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)': u'br-abnt2', u'Swiss French': u'fr_CH-latin1', u'Swiss German': u'sg-latin1', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)': u'sr-cy'}
ubiquity: Untranslated choices: [u'by', u'bg', u'croat', u'cz-lat2', u'sg-latin1', u'de-latin1-nodeadkeys', u'dk-latin1', u'us', u'uk', u'dvorak', u'et', u'es', u'la-latin1', u'fi-latin1', u'fr-latin9', u'be2-latin1', u'cf', u'fr_CH-latin1', u'gr', u'hebrew', u'hu', u'is-latin1', u'it', u'lt', u'lv-latin4', u'jp106', u'mk', u'no-latin1', u'nl', u'pl', u'pt-latin1', u'br-abnt2', u'br-latin1', u'ro', u'ru', u'sk-qwerty', u'slovene', u'sr-cy', u'se-latin1', u'trfu', u'trqu', u'ua']
ubiquity: Choices: [u'Belarusian', u'Bulgarian', u'Croatian', u'Czech', u'Swiss German', u'German', u'Danish', u'American English', u'British English', u'Dvorak', u'Estonian', u'Spanish', u'Latin American', u'Finnish', u'French', u'Belgian', u'Canadian French', u'Swiss French', u'Greek', u'Hebrew', u'Hungarian', u'Icelandic', u'Italian', u'Lithuanian', u'Latvian', u'Japanese', u'Macedonian', u'Norwegian', u'Dutch', u'Polish', u'Portuguese', u'Brazilian (ABNT2 layout)', u'Brazilian (EUA layout)', u'Romanian', u'Russian', u'Slovakian', u'Slovene', u'Serbian (Cyrillic)', u'Swedish', u'Turkish (F layout)', u'Turkish (Q layout)', u'Ukrainian']
ubiquity: console-keymaps-at/keymap db: us
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:30 INFO Step_before = stepKeyboardConf
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:30 INFO switched to page stepUserInfo
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:30 INFO Step_after = stepUserInfo
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-ask', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup.UserSetup
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^passwd/user-fullname$, ^passwd/username$, ^passwd/user-password$, ^passwd/user-password-again$, ERROR
ON STATE: 1
ON STATE: 2
ON STATE: 3
ON STATE: 4
ON STATE: 5
ON STATE: 6
ON STATE: 7
ON STATE: 8
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:58 INFO Step_before = stepUserInfo
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:58 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:25:58 INFO Step_after = stepPartDisk
ubiquity: Starting up '/bin/partman' for ubiquity.components.partman.Partman
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^partman-auto/select_disk$, ^partman-auto/.*automatically_partition$, ^partman-partitioning/new_size$, ^partman/choose_partition$, ^partman/confirm.*, type:boolean, ERROR, PROGRESS
unsupported
kernelmodules_basicfilesystems
kernelmodules_ext3
kernelmodules_jfs
kernelmodules_reiserfs
kernelmodules_xfs
umount_target
parted
dump
update_partitions
filesystems_detected
auto_mountpoints
autouse_swap
backup
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:26:30 INFO switched to page stepPartAuto
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 31: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
/lib/partman/recipes.sh: line 114: local: `-': not a valid identifier
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:27:04 INFO switched to page stepReady
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/summary']' for ubiquity.components.summary.Summary
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^ubiquity/summary$
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
swapon: /dev/hda5: Device or resource busy
umount /target/
swapoff /dev/hda5
chroot: cannot run command `apt-get': No such file or directory
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:28:38 INFO progress_loop()
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py']' for ubiquity.components.install.Install
ubiquity: Watching for question patterns ^.*/apt-install-failed$, CAPB, ERROR, PROGRESS
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet
  warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-manufacturer: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-product-name: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/system-version: No such file or directory
cat: /var/lib/acpi-support/bios-version: No such file or directory
ubiquity: Starting up '['sh', '-c', '/usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/post-base-installer && /usr/lib/ubiquity/localechooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.language_apply.LanguageApply
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping locales, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
E: Couldn't find package localization-config
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping console-tools, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/apt-setup']' for ubiquity.components.apt_setup.AptSetup
/usr/lib/ubiquity/apt-setup/generators/01setup: line 7: /target/etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release [34.8kB]
Get:3 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages [619kB]
Get:4 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages [4571B]
Fetched 659kB in 7s (83.1kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Get:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources [255kB]
Get:3 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources [1478B]
Fetched 257kB in 3s (77.9kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [30.9kB]
Get:3 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [71.4kB]
Get:4 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [14B]
Fetched 103kB in 2s (49.4kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
Get:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [46.3kB]
Get:3 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [14B]
Fetched 46.3kB in 1s (31.9kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [30.9kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [49.1kB]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [4269B]
Fetched 84.5kB in 4s (17.0kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
Fetched 1B in 1s (1B/s)
Reading package lists...
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [12.1kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [964B]
Fetched 13.1kB in 2s (4675B/s)
Reading package lists...
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:47:21 INFO keeping language packs for: en
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/tzsetup/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.timezone_apply.TimezoneApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/clock-setup']' for ubiquity.components.clock_setup.ClockSetup
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/kbd-chooser/prebaseconfig']' for ubiquity.components.kbd_chooser_apply.KbdChooserApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/lib/ubiquity/user-setup/user-setup-apply', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.usersetup_apply.UserSetupApply
ubiquity: Starting up '['/bin/hw-detect']' for ubiquity.components.hw_detect.HwDetect
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping discover1, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 307 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping udev, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 307 not upgraded.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping usbutils, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 307 not upgraded.
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:50:23 INFO chroot /target mount -t proc proc /proc
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:50:23 INFO chroot /target mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/fs/sysv/sysv.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/zlib_deflate/zlib_deflate.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/crc16.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/libcrc32c.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/ts_bm.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/ts_fsm.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/ts_kmp.ko is not an elf object
Not touching initrd symlinks since we are being reinstalled (2.6.15-23.39)
Not updating image symbolic links since we are being updated (2.6.15-23.39)
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:54:28 INFO chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive linux-image-2.6.15-23-386
fcdsl2/lib.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
fcdslsl/driver.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
fcdslslusb/fcdslslusb-lib.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/fs/sysv/sysv.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/fs/vfat/vfat.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/zlib_deflate/zlib_deflate.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/crc-ccitt.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/crc16.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/libcrc32c.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/ts_bm.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/ts_fsm.ko is not an elf object
WARNING: Module /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/lib/ts_kmp.ko is not an elf object
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:54:48 INFO chroot /target dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-23-386
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:54:49 INFO chroot /target umount /proc
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:54:49 INFO chroot /target umount /sys
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/ubiquity/check-kernels']' for ubiquity.components.check_kernels.CheckKernels
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:54:52 INFO mount --bind /proc /target/proc
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:54:52 INFO mount --bind /dev /target/dev
ubiquity: Starting up '['/usr/share/grub-installer/grub-installer', '/target']' for ubiquity.components.grubinstaller.GrubInstaller
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Skipping grub, it is already installed and upgrade is not set.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 307 not upgraded.
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:56:05 INFO switched to page stepPartDisk
ubiquity: ['/usr/share/grub-installer/grub-installer', '/target'] exited with code 1
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:56:07 INFO umount -f /target/proc
Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:56:07 INFO umount -f /target/dev
ubiquity: ['/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py'] exited with code 1
Exception in GTK frontend (invoking crash handler):
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 264, in run
    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

/var/log/syslog
Sep 17 12:49:41 ubuntu hw-detect: Trying to load module 'triflex'
Sep 17 12:49:41 ubuntu hw-detect: insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/triflex.ko
Sep 17 12:49:42 ubuntu hw-detect: Detected module 'trm290' for 'IDE chipset support'
Sep 17 12:49:42 ubuntu hw-detect: Trying to load module 'trm290'
Sep 17 12:49:42 ubuntu hw-detect: insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/trm290.ko
Sep 17 12:49:43 ubuntu hw-detect: Detected module 'via82cxxx' for 'IDE chipset support'
Sep 17 12:49:43 ubuntu hw-detect: Trying to load module 'via82cxxx'
Sep 17 12:49:43 ubuntu hw-detect: insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.ko
Sep 17 12:49:44 ubuntu hw-detect: Detected module 'ide-floppy' for 'Linux IDE floppy'
Sep 17 12:49:44 ubuntu hw-detect: Trying to load module 'ide-floppy'
Sep 17 12:49:45 ubuntu hw-detect: insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-floppy.ko
Sep 17 12:49:45 ubuntu kernel: [ 1971.137837] ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Sep 17 12:49:46 ubuntu hw-detect: Detected discover version 1, installing discover1.
Sep 17 12:49:50 ubuntu hw-detect: Detected udev support, installing udev.
Sep 17 12:49:51 ubuntu hw-detect: Detected hotplug support, installing usbutils.Sep 17 12:49:52 ubuntu hw-detect: Missing modules 'ide-core (Linux IDE support), ide-mod (Linux IDE driver), ide-probe-mod (Linux IDE probe driver), ide-detect (Linux IDE detection)
Sep 17 12:50:23 ubuntu logger: register-modules
Sep 17 12:54:57 ubuntu os-prober: debug: running init /usr/lib/os-probes/init/10filesystems
Sep 17 12:54:57 ubuntu os-prober: debug: running /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests on /dev/hda5
Sep 17 12:54:59 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '(hd0)'
Sep 17 12:54:59 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Sep 17 12:54:59 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target /sbin/grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
Sep 17 12:55:00 ubuntu grub-installer: /sbin/grub-install: line 391: //sbin/grub: cannot execute binary file
Sep 17 12:55:01 ubuntu grub-installer: sed: can't read /boot/grub/device.map: No such file or directory
Sep 17 12:55:01 ubuntu grub-installer: grep:
Sep 17 12:55:01 ubuntu grub-installer: /boot/grub/device.map
Sep 17 12:55:01 ubuntu grub-installer: : No such file or directory
Sep 17 12:55:01 ubuntu grub-installer:
Sep 17 12:55:01 ubuntu grub-installer: /dev/hda1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
Sep 17 12:55:01 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"' failed.

/var/log/partman