** Description changed:
Binary package hint: ubiquity
Feisty Beta installer... installer about 94% and grub gives fatal error:
could not install to (hd0,0).
Mar 25 18:12:08 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '(hd0)'
Mar 25 18:12:08 ubuntu grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Mar 25 18:12:08 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target
grub-install --no-floppy "(hd0)"
Mar 25 18:12:08 ubuntu grub-installer: Probing devices to guess BIOS drives.
This may take a long time.
Mar 25 18:12:13 ubuntu grub-installer: The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read
correctly.
Mar 25 18:12:14 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install
--no-floppy "(hd0)"' failed.
Mar 25 18:12:32 ubuntu ubiquity: Mar 25 18:12:32 ubiquity: ['log-output',
'-t', 'ubiquity', '--pass-stdout', '/usr/share/grub-installer/grub-installer',
'/target'] exited with code 1
- I have a windows dynamic disk with an ext3 primary, NTFS primary, and
- then a secondary partition with multiple fat32s inside it (that doesn't
- look to be detected properly).
+ I have a windows dynamic disk with about 4 partitions. One windows ntfs
+ and one ext3 from a previous fedora install and then some fat32s. I
+ don't think the disk was initially dynamic, I think I converted it to a
+ dynamic disk later in hopes of doing windows raid1 but I never got
+ working. And of course, microsoft then wouldn't let me undo changing it
+ to a dynamic disk.
+
+ Kernel dmesg and /dev showed sda1..sda4. However the installer and
+ fdisk only showed 3 partitions. I should have noticed this
+ discrepancy but I was hasty and wanted the beta installed :| In the
+ installer I picked the ext3 parition only as / and no swap. Then at 94%
+ it errored out and I also got a "/boot" entry on my desktop even though
+ there should be no boot partition... then I rebooted and got the dreaded
+ "couldn't load operating system" error and realized the windows was
+ wiped too.
Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1217 9775521 42 SFS
/dev/sda2 * 1218 2434 9775552+ 42 SFS
/dev/sda3 2435 20023 141283642+ 42 SFS
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 25 18:16:46 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux ubuntu 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007
i686 GNU/Linux
** Summary changed:
- Grub Install Failed, Fatal Error
+ Grub Install On Dynamic Disk Failed, Partitions also Wrongly Displayed by
Installer
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Grub Install On Dynamic Disk Failed, Partitions also Wrongly Displayed by
Installer
https://launchpad.net/bugs/96115
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