[Bug 1015880] Re: Unable to install grub in selected partition

[Jonathan Marsden]

I just confirmed the bug exists for me using the 20120622 daily at

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily-live/20120622/quantal-
desktop-i386.iso

which has an md5sum of e75d146d5aca1396df74feef670e1bb5

For me, it occurs in a VM of 512MB RAM, and also in one of 2GB RAM.
This is in VirtualBox 4.1.16 installed from

  virtualbox-4.1_4.1.16-78094~Ubuntu~lucid_amd64.deb

I then manually partitioned the (virtual) disk using sudo fdisk /dev/sda
to include a 1GB swap partition, and did the usual

  sudo mkswap /dev/sda2
  sudo swapon /dev/sda2
  sudo swapon -s
  free -m

to make sure that it was set up for and being used as swap space.

Even after all that... on a VM with 2GB RAM and 1GB swap... the bug
described in bug #1015880 remains.

So, as far as I can tell, RAM size does not affect this issue (as was
sort of suggested on the lubuntu-qa list).


** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Unable to install grub in selected partition

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Testing current daily iso 20120620 and doing a (manual do something
  else) installation.  Had two previous installs in sda1 and sda6 during
  previous testing resized sda6 and created new sda7 partition.  Decided
  to install grub in sda7 and could open the drop-down box and see sda7
  but could not select the partition.  Also tried to select sda6 for
  grub install that also did not work.  I typically test selecting
  different partitions for the grub install when doing manual installs.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.11.6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.2.3-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.318
  Date: Wed Jun 20 22:11:29 2012
  InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/lubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120620)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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