The installer crashed

[John Fraser]

I ran the installer, put in my information, everything went fine until the GRUB installer started, then it blew up.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 166, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 161, in main
    install(sys.argv[1])
  File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install
    ret = wizard.run()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 338, in run
    self.process_step()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 828, in process_step
    self.progress_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/kde-ui.py", line 599, in progress_loop
    raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s\n%s" %
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1404, in ?
    install.run()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 385, in run
    self.configure_bootloader()
  File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1163, in configure_bootloader
    raise InstallStepError(
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1

It says to attatch syslog and partman, but I don't know how to do that.

[John Fraser (blackboe)]

Actually, I should mention this was the second time installing it. I'm new to this and the first time I managed to ruin grub, it was installed on hd0. I couldn't get into windows from it, so I checked some sites, and tried doing different things from the grub shell. Next time I restarted the computer it said it failed to load, so I was going to try re-installing it somewhere else, or...

Yeah. No idea what I'm doing. None. Linux confuses me. :P

Anyway. HERE is syslog

[John Fraser (blackboe)]

And here is partman.

[John Fraser (blackboe)]

Whoops, tell a lie. HERE is syslog, I forgot to check the attachment box.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

(hd1) (the master boot record on the second hard disk) doesn't exist, which is no wonder since you only appear to have one hard disk. You might find syntax like "/dev/hda2" easier to handle. The lack of validation here is also bug 90575.