[Bug 867863] Re: installer crashes when finding/creating boot partition on primary hard drive

[Brian Murray]

Some more details:

Oct  4 16:31:59 ubuntu ubiquity: Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
Oct  4 16:31:59 ubuntu ubiquity: grub-probe: error: unknown filesystem.
Oct  4 16:31:59 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Oct  4 16:31:59 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Oct  4 16:31:59 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target grub-install  --no-floppy --force "/dev/sda"
Oct  4 16:32:01 ubuntu grub-installer: Installation finished. No error reported.
Oct  4 16:32:01 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully
Oct  4 16:32:01 ubuntu ubiquity: Can't read partition table from /dev/sda

** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) => grub-installer (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  installer crashes when finding/creating boot partition on primary hard
  drive

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

Bug description:
  When using the ubiquity installer from live cd, installer can't find
  partition when trying to write /boot to sda (primary hard drive
  device), which is already home to a Windows partition.  Trying to
  delete and create instead, causes the installer to crash.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.284
  Date: Tue Oct  4 16:32:32 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20111004)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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