[Bug 893805] Re: Live CD installer crashes after failing to install grub

[Jon Brett]

Having reviewed the logs, it is clear that I was doing something dumb in
trying to install grub on /dev/sda1 (a partition) instead of /dev/sda
(my first hard disk) (See last line of comment #3).

However, I would still expect the installer to handle this gracefully,
without crashing, so this bug still stands.

Perhaps the installer could even to provide some helpful message to set
unobservant users like me on the correct path e.g. "Are you sure you
want to install grub on a partition, instead of the disk?".

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Title:
  Live CD installer crashes after failing to install grub

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  1. Booted amd64 live cd.
  2. Installed lvm2 by running "sudo apt-get install lvm2" (I am installing to existing lvm device).
  3. Run installer, installing / on lvm, /boot on /dev/sdb1 and bootloader on /dev/sda1
  4. Get error installing bootloader
  5. Installer reports crash

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Tue Nov 22 22:35:01 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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