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

[Soren Mogensen]

Sorry, but the only reason I mentioned KVM was that I initially tested
in KVM with no issues what so ever - and that was what caused me to go
ahead with a direct hardware install. The issue above IS a direct
hardware install (no KVM)!

Thus, I hope this can be fixed before Thursday as I would quite like to
be able to install 12.10.

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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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