The problem here is that /dev/sda is unpartitioned and has no filesystem directly on it either, so grub-setup sensibly refuses to do anything with it. We should add this to the pile of checks for whether the first disk is a reasonable installation target.
The natural implementation would be to use 'grub-probe -t partmap' and 'grub-probe -t fs'. However, this is complicated because 'grub-probe -t partmap' tells you about the partition map containing a partition, but not about the partition map contained in a disk. There's a 'partmap' utility in partman-utils which we're already using in grub-installer, so we can use that instead. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/711830 Title: Error installing grub2 installing natty server -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
