[Bug 990642] Re: Installing 12.04 caused grub-installer to fail, "Fatal error unable to install grub"

[dino99]

Closing that report as grub was not able ( by design) to do the
requested job.

@idiens
Please report your own issue as its way more recent and completely unrelated to this one.

** Description changed:

  I have a raid 1 array (disk a) and another disk that doesn't have raid
  enabled (disk b). I'm not that savvy in terms of understanding file
  systems and the nomenclature.
  
  Nonethless, i decided to wipe my hard drive and install 12.04 64bit.
  After half way through the installation an error indicated that grub has
  failed to install and that it was a fatal error.
  
  I had 11.10 64bit installed on disk b and it wouldn't boot it couldn't
  find the partition (i filed a previous question). So i've decided to
  just wipe the disk and install 12.04 on disk b. I do have windows 7
  installed on disk A.
  
  I hypothesize that that maybe the issue; but i'm not sure how to fix the
  problem.
  
+ *************************
+ The error was:
+ grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.
+ 
+ grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --no-floppy --force
+ "/dev/mapper/isw_eafhajhfeb_Volume0p2"' failed.
+ 
+ *************************
+ 
+ 
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.315
  Date: Sat Apr 28 12:31:43 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
-  TERM=linux
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
+  LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
+  TERM=linux
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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

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Title:
  Installing 12.04 caused grub-installer to fail, "Fatal error unable to
  install grub"

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I have a raid 1 array (disk a) and another disk that doesn't have raid
  enabled (disk b). I'm not that savvy in terms of understanding file
  systems and the nomenclature.

  Nonethless, i decided to wipe my hard drive and install 12.04 64bit.
  After half way through the installation an error indicated that grub
  has failed to install and that it was a fatal error.

  I had 11.10 64bit installed on disk b and it wouldn't boot it couldn't
  find the partition (i filed a previous question). So i've decided to
  just wipe the disk and install 12.04 on disk b. I do have windows 7
  installed on disk A.

  I hypothesize that that maybe the issue; but i'm not sure how to fix
  the problem.

  *************************
  The error was:
  grub-installer: /usr/sbin/grub-setup: error: embedding is not possible, but this is required for cross-disk install.

  grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install  --no-floppy --force
  "/dev/mapper/isw_eafhajhfeb_Volume0p2"' failed.

  *************************

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.10.16
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.315
  Date: Sat Apr 28 12:31:43 2012
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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