The drive that I tried to install on was a dual boot before (Ubuntu 32 bit
12.04, upgraded from 11.10 and Windows 7 NTFS). To my knowledge there was no
FAT partition on the /dev/sda1
As stated before I tried to to select /dev/sda1 explicitly when I tried to
install the first times. This bug rep
The problem seems to be also that your grup-install target is a FAT
partition:
Nov 3 02:58:26 ubuntu 10freedos: debug: /dev/mmcblk0p1 is a FAT partition
(mounted by GRUB)
which later gives the
Nov 3 03:23:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py:
ubiquity.install_misc.InstallStepError: GrubInstaller failed
The cause for the dev/sda1 install attempted you have described in
comment #3 may be:
Nov 3 03:17:57 ubuntu grub-installer: info: Identified partition label
for /dev/sda1: msdos
Is it correct that you have tried to create a multi boot solution
alongside Windows?
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In UbiquitySyslog.txt:
Nov 3 03:23:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Exception during installation:
Nov 3 03:23:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Nov 3 03:23:11 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File
"/usr/share/ubiquity/plugininstall.py", line 1732, in
Nov 3 03:23:11 ubuntu
In UbiquitySyslog.txt:
Nov 3 03:18:00 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install
--force "/dev/mmcblk0"' failed.
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Title:
12.10 grub-in
In UbiquitySyslog.txt:
Nov 3 03:17:59 ubuntu ubiquity: Warning: Unable to open /dev/mmcblk0
read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/mmcblk0 has been opened read-only.
Nov 3 03:17:59 ubuntu ubiquity: Warning: Unable to open /dev/mmcblk0
read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/mmcblk0 has be
** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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Title:
12.10 grub-install faltal error
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I have a Dell E6410 laptop with 8Gb of ram and a i5 Intel CPU.
Intresting link. I tried to pop out the SD card and then the installation
process worked (did not fail on the last step "grub-install fatal error").
So the workaround is easy, but I would call it a bug that the installation
wizard ca
Hello,
Thanks for reporting this. Can you add some information about the
computer you are running on? Laptop make, processor, etc.
Also, check this thread out, the errors mentioned there seem similar
to yours: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1713950
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