[Bug 1102079] Re: install 12.04 to ssd fails

[AraiBob]

more detail. When Iook for help, all seem to be for dual boot, windows
and Ubuntu. Mine is for ONLY Ubuntu. New MB, and 16GB memory. ASUS
Rampage IV Formula. 5 hard drives from the prior Ubuntu pc with older
MB. My boot drive then was Velociraptor 1TB drive, with ubuntu 'all' on
that drive. the other 4 drives are data only.

New is a Samsung 830 SSD 265GB. From hints related to SSD, I chose to
implement this:

SS830   /  [root]
ss830   [whatever is needed for boot]
1TBVelociraptor /home  and swap

So whenever I ran the install from whichever dvd I tried (original
Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and just now the 12.10 safe UEFI) the
install finished ok, but upon reboot, I got the error that says the boot
information cannot be found.

I tried using the 'Boot Repair' tool and it seemed to worked each time,
but gave these 'status codes', for which I don't know how to interpret:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/ 156351
then I tried another time to fix via the dvd for 12.10 uefi
and got            /151701    
tried one more time to fix 
and got   /1561717

I gave up the 'split' approach. I am now dedicating the SSD ONLY to the
install, just beginning. It takes hours for the install to finish
because of the b*S downloading.

after this is done, and if I can reboot, I will do updates, which will
give me a new Linux kernal. If I can reboot from that, then I will see
about moving /home    to the  1TB Velociraptor. I don't know how to do
this, but perhaps it will be easier to do than the crap I have been
fighting.

I left Windows because of all this kind of crap. It looks like MS found
a way to screw us.

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Title:
  install 12.04 to ssd fails

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  attempt to install 12.04 to new pc build. ssd is to be root drive.
  failed. don't know exactly why, but notice said it could not put the
  boot information.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.9.15 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.303
  Date: Sun Jan 20 23:11:53 2013
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120201.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_PH.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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