[Bug 1660329] [NEW] installation of 16.04 crashes on installing grub, even skipping does not work

[toby hijzen]

Public bug reported:

I am trying to install ubuntu 16.04 on an lvm partition created on my
main disk where a windows partition is also present. I was using 14.04
and grub before. But now it crashes upon installation as grub cannot be
found. Even though I end up in grub on bootup. I've tried selecting both
sda and sdb as disk containing grub but installation fails. Even trying
to skip setting up of grub didn succeed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Mon Jan 30 13:50:44 2017
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
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)

** Affects: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ubiquity-2.21.63.2 ubuntu xenial

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Title:
  installation of 16.04 crashes on installing grub, even skipping does
  not work

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am trying to install ubuntu 16.04 on an lvm partition created on my
  main disk where a windows partition is also present. I was using 14.04
  and grub before. But now it crashes upon installation as grub cannot
  be found. Even though I end up in grub on bootup. I've tried selecting
  both sda and sdb as disk containing grub but installation fails. Even
  trying to skip setting up of grub didn succeed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376
  Date: Mon Jan 30 13:50:44 2017
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
  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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