Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Trying to set up Ubuntu 6.10 AMD64 to dual-boot with Mac OS X on an iMac
17" Core 2 Duo box; 1GB memory, 250 GB hard drive.
I partitioned the drive roughly in half under Mac OS X with Boot Camp
Assistant, then booted with an Ubuntu 6.10 AMD-64 LiveCD. After manually
editing xorg.conf to reduce the screen resolution to 1024x768 to get
around a problem with screen corruption, I went through the GUI
installer.
I selected "manually partition" and removed the large second partition
which Boot Camp Assistant created, replacing it with a large ext3 root
partition (sda3) and a 2GB swap partition (sda4). When selecting mount
points, I had to manually rename the automatically generated "/media/EFI
System Partition" to "/media/efi-system-partition" for one of the Mac-
related partitions (sda1). The rest of the installation took default
values other than the timezone.
Everything seemed to go fine until it reached GRUB installation, at
which point a dialog appeared stating:
Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)
Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed.
This is a fatal error.
[OK]
After clicking OK, a Python stack trace from the installer is shown,
asking to create a new bug here and attach some log files. Will attach
stack trace and log files...
Bug 76786 appears to be the same issue but is missing the log data; I
would attach there instead but the dialog said specifically not to
attach my logs to an existing bug.
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Installer crashes on GRUB on iMac 17" Core 2 Duo
https://launchpad.net/bugs/89937
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