[Bug 1314935] Re: install crash - could not make grub

[Phillip Susi]

Well this is interesting:

grub-installer: grub-install: error: cannot open `/dev/sdb': Read-only
file system.

I have no idea how that can possibly happen.

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Title:
  install crash - could not make grub

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

Bug description:
  installing onto an external hard drive, reinstalling over 32 bit
  version with a 64 bit

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.18.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.340
  Date: Thu May  1 10:58:44 2014
  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 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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