I fixed the problem by running grub-install. For some reason the disk order was different than in previous versions of the installer. Grub tried to install to hd0. It should have been the third scsi drive but I didn't know if there was a chroot involved so it took a while to figure out how to correct it. When I tried to change to hd2 it still failed. Only when I manually did a grub-install to /dev/sdc did it work correctly. This disk /dev/sdc with root on /dev/sdc1 becomes /dev/sda when I boot normally. Nothing has changed on my system since at least three versions ago of Ubuntu and perhaps more. This is the first time that writing to the MBR has been a problem. I was a bit rusty on GRUB since it's been a while since I had any problems.
The error that GRUB could not write to the MBR and /boot was due to trying to write to an external USB drive. Since this failure is at the last step would it make sense for the installer to check that it can write to the MBR (or wherever) before spending several hours installing only to fail at the end? The system was installed on the correct drive, only the GRUB stuff was misdirected. -- 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
