[Bug 1621423] Re: installation aborts after failed grub installation

[Phillip Susi]

BackBox is not an official Ubuntu flavor and so is not supported here.


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

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Title:
  installation aborts after failed grub installation

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Installation process of Ubuntu 14.04 goes smoothly until the last step
  of installing the GRUB bootloader onto the disk. Then the error
  message "failed to install grub on /target/" appears and the
  installation crashes.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.18.8.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-36.42~14.04.1-generic 4.2.8-ckt8
  Uname: Linux 4.2.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.20
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.340
  Date: Thu Sep  8 13:53:52 2016
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/backbox.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash --
  LiveMediaBuild: BackBox Linux 4.6 - Release amd64
  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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