[Bug 1393924] Re: bootloader failed to install: cant find "/cow"

[Phillip Susi]

You have two disk drives.  By default, grub is installed to /dev/sda,
which should be the first drive in the system, and the one your bios
boots from.  It failed to install because you removed all partitions
from that drive.  You either need to create at least one partition on
the drive, or choose to install it to /dev/sdb and make sure your bios
is configured to boot from that drive.


** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  bootloader failed to install: cant find "/cow"

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

Bug description:
  I attempted to install Ubuntu 14.10 and the installation of the GRUB
  bootloader failed.  I tried to install the bootloader by hand though
  the terminal but got the error that "/cow" could not be found.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.20.0
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.345
  Date: Tue Nov 18 19:46:38 2014
  InstallCmdLine: initrd=/ubninit file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash -- BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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