[Bug 1446459] Re: installer crashes when installing to grub on sdb

[MR]

There was no partitioning on the disk. I formatted the disk in GParted
with no partition scheme at all,  just "Unallocated Space".

Grub-installer would still fatal error when OS HDD was defined as drive
/sdb/

The ONLY way I could get the installer to complete was to unplug my
storage HDD which was getting defined as /sda/ so that the OS HDD was
getting defined as /sda/

** Summary changed:

- installer crashes when installing to grub on sdb
+ installer crashes during dpkg grub to /sdb/

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Title:
  installer crashes during dpkg grub to /sdb/

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Invalid
Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 RC 4-17-2015
  grub-installer

  When installing to /sdb/, installer encounters fatal error when
  attempting to run grub-installer

  Will alter drive to sda within BIOS and re-attempt.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.22
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-14.14-generic 3.19.3
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-14-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.359
  Date: Tue Apr 21 00:34:02 2015
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/multiboot/ubuntu-gnome-desktop-amd64/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/multiboot/ubuntu-gnome-desktop-amd64/preseed/ubuntu-gnome.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid live-media-path=/multiboot/ubuntu-gnome-desktop-amd64/casper/ initrd=/multiboot/ubuntu-gnome-desktop-amd64/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: It
  ProcEnviron:
   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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