[Bug 1066325] Re: Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

[melchiaros]

I have set this for now to ubiquity and grub2, but the problem of the
missing logs is still there.

If you want to help us to investigate further please attach the logs
from

/var/log/syslog
/var/log/partman
/var/log/installer

of a fresh installation try.(May be you can get them to a flash
drive/stick, when the system can not finish the installation with
success).

Please use the latest daily

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/


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For now I set the report to incomplete. Please set it back to new when
you can manage to get the logs out.

Thank you for reporting

melchiaros


** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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

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Title:
  Failing to install boot loader - 12.10 daily build October 12

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Having run 12.10 beta 2 in a KVM I decided to install the latest daily
  build for real only to encounter a fatal error during installation.

  The install seems to run fine until suddenly reporting: Executing
  'grub-install /dev/sda' failed. This is a fatal error.

  I have 2 drives - /dev/sda is a 3TB hard disk, and /dev/sdb is a 128GB
  SSD. I was installing onto /dev/sdb so got a bit freaked out that it
  was trying to install a boot loader to /dev/sda.

  Manually telling the installer to use /dev/sdb instead did not work
  either, so have a system without boot loader.

  Am currently downloading beta 2 again to attempt an install with that
  image (to determine if it's something that's gone wrong since beta 2
  or whether it's a hardware compatibility issue). Previous OS on the
  SSD was 12.04, but I chose a complete re-install replacing the OS
  rather than an upgrade.

  ATTACHMENTS:
  1) cat /proc/version_signature > version.log : Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  2) sudo lspci -vnvn > lspci-vnvn.log

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