[Bug 998066] Re: ubuntu installer crashes when installing Ubuntu on the second hard drive

[Beowulf]

Eventually I figured out what happened.

I have two hard drives, sda and sdb and decided to install Ubuntu on
sdb.

There was a single partition on sda, named sda2, where Windows lives.
Some time ago I had two partitions, sda1 and sda2, then I removed sda1.

Installation process went wrong on "Migrate settings from Windows" or on
"Intall Grub" phase. Ubuntu installer was trying to access /dev/sda1,
which doesn't exist.

It looks like installer assumes that if you have Windows on the second
drive, then the Windows lives on /dev/sda1 partition, and that is not
always true, because the user may have re-partitioned the hard drive.

I could fix the problem by re-creating partitions table for /dev/sda,
then I  installed Windows on /dev/sda1. After that I ran Ubuntu
installer and installed Ubuntu on my second hard drive without any
problems.

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Title:
  ubuntu installer crashes when installing Ubuntu on the second hard
  drive

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

Bug description:
  Installing ubuntu on the second hard drive ended with an error.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.315
  Date: Fri May 11 17:20:34 2012
  InstallCmdLine: noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=unknown
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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