[Bug 1776918] [NEW] grub installation hang on 0%

[Kenneth Zadeck]

Public bug reported:

This should be an easy problem to replicate and fix.  I was installing
18.04lts server on a system with two identical disks in a raid 1 config.
When i did the partitioning, i did not set the bootable flag on any of
the partitions.   (I had in fact reused the partitioning from a 14.04
install but since you cannot go directly from 14.04 to 18.04, i decided
to just blow away / and reinstall.)

The issue is that at the point of partitioning, it should have told me
that i did not have a bootable partition, rather than letting me get
most of the way through and then hanging at the start of the grub
install.

For all of my other machines, i use the desktop installer with the gui
and that does not seem to ever ask me to mark a partition as bootable so
having to do it for the server install was a novel situation.

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

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Title:
  grub installation hang on 0%

Status in grub package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This should be an easy problem to replicate and fix.  I was installing
  18.04lts server on a system with two identical disks in a raid 1
  config.   When i did the partitioning, i did not set the bootable flag
  on any of the partitions.   (I had in fact reused the partitioning
  from a 14.04 install but since you cannot go directly from 14.04 to
  18.04, i decided to just blow away / and reinstall.)

  The issue is that at the point of partitioning, it should have told me
  that i did not have a bootable partition, rather than letting me get
  most of the way through and then hanging at the start of the grub
  install.

  For all of my other machines, i use the desktop installer with the gui
  and that does not seem to ever ask me to mark a partition as bootable
  so having to do it for the server install was a novel situation.

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