[Bug 460901] Re: Ubiquity crashes while trying to install grub, then update-grub crashes afterward. Grub looks to be installed in the terminal, but won't boot Ubuntu.

[Charlie Kravetz]

If you are experiencing this issue in a release other than Ubuntu 9.04,
please file a new bug report. If you are using Ubuntu 9.04 to install,
please download a new release, since Ubuntu 9.04 is no longer supported.

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Title:
  Ubiquity crashes while trying to install grub, then update-grub
  crashes afterward. Grub looks to be installed in the terminal, but
  won't boot Ubuntu.

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Sorry in advance if I don't provide all the necessary info, I'm new to
  Linux.

  Anyway, I've tried multiple times to install Ubuntu 9.04 off the CD
  onto a 250 gig SATA drive that I had previously wiped clean with DBAN,
  and everything goes swimmingly until the very end. The installer tells
  me something like "Fatal error: could not configure grub" and quits,
  instead booting into the liveCD version. When I reboot without the cd,
  it just goes into grub, and nothing I've tried can get it any further.

  Everything seems to be on the hard drive when I look in the file
  manager, and grub works through the terminal. I don't know what to do
  with grub at all, though. The reason I post this here instead of
  looking for help online is because I had a more linux-familiar friend
  try to fix it, and after about 4 hours he gave up, prompting me to
  think there's something more than just me not knowing how to use it -
  but I apologize if that's not the case. Also, I put it as a new issue
  because though some others looked similar, the ones I saw were either
  solved by older releases of Ubuntu, or they only mentioned an issue
  with the installer OR grub, not both. If I missed the right one,
  please direct me to it.

  Some history: this is a laptop that originally had Vista on it. A
  program that I used frequently gave an error when I tried to run it
  again, so I thought I'd reboot - and after trying to reboot I never
  saw the Vista desktop again. This is a laptop that came with Vista
  preinstalled, so I have no cd. I burnt a vista repair cd that did
  absolutely nothing - the program I burnt it with claimed it was
  bootable, but I couldn't get it to boot.  I have an XP cd that I
  tried, but apparently the XP install won't recognize SATA drives, so I
  decided to try linux. This same CD installed without a hitch on an old
  Thinkpad, so I don't think it's any fault with the CD.

  ProblemType: Crash
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/update-grub
  InterpreterPath: /target/bin/bash
  MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release i386 (20090420.1)
  Package: grub 0.97-29ubuntu53
  ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
  ProcCmdline: /bin/bash /usr/sbin/update-grub -y
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_COLLATE=C
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  Signal: 11
  SourcePackage: grub
  StacktraceTop:
   sh_mktmpfd ()
   ?? ()
   do_redirections ()
   ?? ()
   execute_command_internal ()
  Title: update-grub crashed with SIGSEGV in sh_mktmpfd()
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
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