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

[melchiaros]

@ Soren

Just for knowing:

I have looked over the last reports on grub-installer.

There are nearly no issues arround with Ubuntu12.10, which resides on
top of Grub2 2.0. Just reports for Ubuntu12.04, which resides on grub2
1.99.x

May be your report is just caused by the KVM environment. So ,may be a
direct hardware install may not gave this error.

-> Or you are just the first that reports on this :)

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

Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

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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