You normally can install grub to a partition and some people have
reasons for doing so, but not in this case since your system is
installed on a different disk.
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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Having reviewed the logs, it is clear that I was doing something dumb in
trying to install grub on /dev/sda1 (a partition) instead of /dev/sda
(my first hard disk) (See last line of comment #3).
However, I would still expect the installer to handle this gracefully,
without crashing, so this bug
** Attachment added: /var/log/partman
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893805/+attachment/2605397/+files/partman
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/893805
Title:
Live CD installer
Exception during installation:
Nov 22 22:34:58 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 22 22:34:58 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File
/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py, line 1641, in module
Nov 22 22:34:58 ubuntu plugininstall.py: install.run()
Nov 22 22:34:58 ubuntu
From the syslog file the exact error message:
Nov 22 21:33:08 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label for
/dev/sdb1: msdos
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning: there is no installed
package that matches grub
Nov 22 21:33:11 ubuntu grub-installer: dpkg: warning:
