[Bug 910412] Re: problem with bootloader during installation

[Phillip Susi]

** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) => partman-auto (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: partman-auto (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Triaged

** Summary changed:

- problem with bootloader during installation
+ grub installed to wron location when trying along side then whole disk

** Description changed:

- I think the summary is enough to understand my problem.
- 
- 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
- NonfreeKernelModules: wl
- ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
- Architecture: amd64
- CasperVersion: 1.287
- Date: Sat Dec 31 18:52:34 2011
- LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
- ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=fr_CH.UTF-8
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
- SourcePackage: ubiquity
- UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
+ Initially had windows installed with all 4 primary partitions used.
+ Tried to install along side, which of course, failed.  Then tried to
+ install using whole disk.  It appears that the attempt to install along
+ side decided that grub needed to be installed to the existing windows
+ boot fat32 partition, and after installing using the whole disk, grub
+ failed to install because that partition no longer existed.  The initial
+ choice of where to install grub should have been discarded and /dev/sda
+ chosen instead.

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Title:
  grub installed to wron location when trying along side then whole disk

Status in “partman-auto” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Initially had windows installed with all 4 primary partitions used.
  Tried to install along side, which of course, failed.  Then tried to
  install using whole disk.  It appears that the attempt to install
  along side decided that grub needed to be installed to the existing
  windows boot fat32 partition, and after installing using the whole
  disk, grub failed to install because that partition no longer existed.
  The initial choice of where to install grub should have been discarded
  and /dev/sda chosen instead.

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