Colin,
Thanks for the response. I had tried Ubuntu 9.04 because my previous
attempts to install Ubuntu 9.10 had failed. There were no traps but I did
receive install errors. However I retried Ubuntu 9.10 as you suggested again
and this time the install completed without any indications of a trap or
errors. The difference between this attempt and the prior attempts is that on
the prior attempts I had selected either to do the install Ubuntu 9.10 without
activating the network after starting Ubuntu 9.10 from CD or tried the install
without first loading Ubuntu 9.10 from CD.
This time I did the following:
Started Ubuntu 9.10 from CD.Started the network support.Launched the Install
from the Desktop Icon.
The only difference between the successful install and failed attempts
is that network was activated. Not sure why this would matter. Booting
from a SDHC however does not work because the Grub loader is unable to
find the drive.
Thanks.
Regards,
Robert.
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:03:37 +0000
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Bug 505396] Re: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in
> configure_bootloader()
>
> Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sdb'
> Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
> Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target
> grub-install --no-floppy "/dev/sdb"
> Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer: You shouldn't call /sbin/grub-install.
> Please call /usr/sbin/grub-install instead!
> Jan 10 00:23:30 ubuntu grub-installer:
> Jan 10 00:23:39 ubuntu grub-installer: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives.
> This may take a long time.
> Jan 10 00:23:40 ubuntu grub-installer: /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not have any
> corresponding BIOS drive.
> Jan 10 00:23:40 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install
> --no-floppy "/dev/sdb"' failed.
>
> This looks quite likely to be fixed by 9.10 with GRUB 2. Would you mind
> retesting?
>
> ** Package changed: ubiquity (Ubuntu) => grub-installer (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()
> + /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
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> /dev/mmcblk0p1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505396
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> Status in “grub-installer” package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ubiquity
>
> I was in the process of installing Ubuntu 9.04 to a 16GB SDHC card. The
> install was to put the Grub boot loader on a 4GB USB thumb drive that has
> Ubuntu 9.10. The grub install failed, I do not know why. I have tried
> installing Ubuntu 9.10 on the SDHC card but that fails with portions of the
> file system missing (eg nothing in the proc folder or incomplete dev folder).
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity
> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
> MediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope" - Release amd64 (20090420.1)
> Package: ubiquity 1.12.12
> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity --only
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> PythonArgs: ['/usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity', '--only']
> SourcePackage: ubiquity
> Title: ubiquity crashed with InstallStepError in configure_bootloader()
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
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