I confirm this bug is still present in Feisty Beta 1 Alternate installer CD.
During the install, I chose manual partitioning and selected an existing partition for reformatting as my root partition. Then at the question "Install bootloader to MBR?" I chose No, and instead said to install to /dev/sda9 (SATA drive). As error message told me that grub-install failed and this was fatal. I continued the installation and then used the installer CD as a rescue disk and ran "grub-install /dev/sda7" manually. I then had to create my own menu.lst. This was with a JFS partition, and specifying both /dev/sda7 and (hd0,6) fail the same way. Same bug existed in Edgy, except I was installing to EXT3 and not JFS then. I seem to remember i has the same bug in Dapper too, but can't swear to it. -- grub-install fails for JFS root partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/14010 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
