Public bug reported:
Trying to install Ubuntu 10 on an external hard drive (sda) with 100gb of free
space on it.
Run Ubunto from live CD - works properly
Click "Install", asks some questions.
Answer to install ubuntu in sda and to create its own partition where he founds
the larger contiguous space.
Asks where to install grub (defoult hd0). I changed it into sd0, as my hd (the
internal disk of this laptop) runs windows, and I do not want to mess around
with it. Tried to do everything on the external USB disk sda.
Installation creates partitions, run for 20 minutes or so, and at the end,
while installing grub, outputs this fatal error.
I guess something went wrong with the location to install grub.
Provided I do not want to overwrite in the hd windows disk, and try play safe
on the sda external drive, where can grub be set ?
at present this external drive has two partitions (sda1 and sda2 used
for other stuff) and 100gb free space, where the installer were trying
to install ubuntu.
attacched the message that came out at the end.
thanks to anybody there taking care of this problem
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 166, in ?
main()
File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 161, in main
install(sys.argv[1])
File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install
ret = wizard.run()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 305, in run
self.process_step()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 856, in process_step
self.progress_loop()
File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 628, in
progress_loop
raise RuntimeError, ("Install failed with exit code %s\n%s" %
RuntimeError: Install failed with exit code 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1404, in ?
install.run()
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 385, in run
self.configure_bootloader()
File "/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py", line 1163, in configure_bootloader
raise InstallStepError(
InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed with code 1
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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installer crashed upon installing grub on usb drive
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77979
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