"I reinstalled with the alternate CD, same error message, then was able to install lilo (its the next option that comes up after grub fails)."
So, did you somehow complete installation? How did you get past the installation shut-down and the LiveCD session? I do appear to have a Linux partition and swap on the new disk, just no GRUB. How, when and where does one run grub-install? In a terminal during a Live session? Would it look like this: "grub-install hd0"? -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs