[Bug 577987] Re: Unable to write boot loader to a partition which is not the first one

[Brian Murray]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.  Reviewing your log files attached to this bug report it
seems that there is a problem with your installation media (CD/DVD) or
with your hardware.  Please retry your installation with new media and
if it still fails I'd recommend testing your CD drive with other media.
In the event that is is not in fact an error with your installation
media or hardware please set the bug's status back to New.  Thanks and
good luck!

** Changed in: debian-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Tags added: media-error

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Title:
  Unable to write boot loader to a partition which is not the first one

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debian-installer

  Before the installation of Ubuntu 10.04 I had Refit (boot menu) on the
  first partition and Mac OS X on the second partition of the harddrive.
  About half of the harddrive was unpartitioned. During the installation
  of Ubuntu I manually created a third swap partition and fourth ext4
  partition in the free space. In the last step of the installation
  however I could not choose the fourth partition as the partition to
  write the boot loader to. The OK button was disabled. I then created
  the partitions with the disk utility application from the live cd. Now
  when the partitions already existed I could select the fourth
  partition as the partition to write the boot loader to.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: debian-installer (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun May  9 22:50:37 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  MachineType: Apple Inc. Macmini3,1
  MemoryUsage:
   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
   Mem:       1776944    1734152      42792          0      47632    1017164
   -/+ buffers/cache:     669356    1107588
   Swap:      4094376       1364    4093012
  ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=62482803-f927-4151-adf0-4f9d93c5bdb2 ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: debian-installer
  dmi.bios.date: 07/17/09
  dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: MM31.88Z.00AD.B00.0907171535
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
  dmi.board.name: Mac-F22C86C8
  dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
  dmi.chassis.type: 16
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22C86C8
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMM31.88Z.00AD.B00.0907171535:bd07/17/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacmini3,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22C86C8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct16:cvrMac-F22C86C8:
  dmi.product.name: Macmini3,1
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.

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