[Bug 1122834] Re: Grub tries to install to wrong boot partition and fails

[Phillip Susi]

Grub needs to be installed to whichever disk your bios boots from.  This
is typically /dev/sda, but it appears your drive has no partitions on
it.


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

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Title:
  Grub tries to install to wrong boot partition and fails

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  After installing Ubuntu with LVM to /dev/sdg. The installer still tries to install grub to sda for some reason and fails.
  I then try and install to sdg1 (boot partition) fails, then try to install to sdg5 (lvm with root and swap) also fails.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.12.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.328
  Date: Tue Feb 12 07:43:36 2013
  InstallCmdLine: bootkbd=us console-setup/layoutcode=en_US console-setup/variantcode=nodeadkeys locale=us_us noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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