I had this problem on a multi-boot system (Vista, XP, Intrepid (old), Intrepid (new)), and managed to resolve it easily enough. Here's my drive history:
The first time I installed Intrepid, it was on a multi-boot system, installed on the same physical drive as Windows XP (call it drive B). Then I bought a new faster hard drive (call it drive A), and decided to install Vista x64 and Intrepid 64-bit on it. I set my bios to boot from drive A, installed Vista x64 on drive A, and then I could multi-boot into Vista (installed on A) and XP (installed on B) using the Vista bootloader. Grub and my old Intrepid install was gone - since I was no longer booting from drive B (though the files remained there). Then I tried to install Intrepid on a second partition on the new drive A. The previous Intrepid install was detected, since it was mentioned in the Migration Wizard. Well I got the ubiquity error near the end of the install process. It kicked me back to the LiveCD desktop. To solve it, I simply unplugged the old drive B - the drive that had the old Intrepid on it, as well as the old Grub and Windows XP - and re- installed Intrepid from the LiveCD. The install went perfectly. Then I turned off the computer, plugged drive B back in, and could triple-boot the new Intrepid, Vista, and XP. I simply reformatted the partition where the old Intrepid was installed, for extra disk space. Anyway, my guess is that Intrepid (or GRUB specifically) has difficulty installing on a system that has another Ubuntu/GRUB install already on it, even if it's on a separate physical hard drive. Obviously not everyone has the option of simply unplugging the drive with the old GRUB on it, but if you have that option it worked for me. -- ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
