Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)

[ricardisimo]

I got the following error during install of 9.04:

Unable to install GRUB in (hd0)
Executing grub-install failed
This is a fatal error
At this point the install shut down and the LiveCD session took over, and here I am.

I've found several threads with this same error, however, invariably the other cases involve dual-booting. That is not the case with me.

I am attempting to do a fresh install of Jaunty, while at the same time replacing my original primary disk (an 80GB Western Digital WDC WD800JB-00ET) with a brand-spanking new Seagate 1.5TB ST31500341AS, 3.5" Barracuda. LiveCD is allowing me to browse the slave disk quite well, but not the 1.5TB, although lshw does give me the following information:

*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: ST31500341AS
vendor: Seagate
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: CC1H
serial: 9VS1CAK0
size: 1397GiB (1500GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00081291
*-volume:0
description: EXT3 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /target
version: 1.0
serial: 8ebd53cc-cc2c-42df-88c1-bd2c6fa24332
size: 1394GiB
capacity: 1394GiB
capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2009-04-25 15:27:53 filesystem=ext3 modified=2009-04-25 15:36:24 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered mounted=2009-04-25 15:36:24 state=mounted
The solution mentioned most often is run grub-install manually, but how does one do that, and should I be doing it? Do I run it in a terminal during a Live session? Or is it in "Safe Mode" (or whatever the Ubuntu correlate is)?

I'm assuming I would run a command like:

grub-install hd0
Is this correct?

[ricardisimo]

This appears to be a problem with the Seagate 1.5TB drives:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/260001

Has anyone out there successfully installed on one of these as their primary drive? If so, how? My guess is that I might have a three-way conflict between the mobo, the hd and ubiquity. Thanks.

[ricardisimo]

As per a tip elsewhere in these forums, I disabled the migration assistant in ubiquity, and voilá. All done installing. Thanks again to these forums.

[fourwheeldrifter]

this tip did not work for me, i have a seagate 1.5 TB also with vista 64 on the first partition,

its only going to be chainloaded anyway from the vista bootloader so perhaps i will just download the alternate cd and install lilo when grub install fails

UPDATE - using the alternate cd and using lilo works for me, not ideal but at least it works

[ricardisimo]

Was this the command you tried:

sudo ubiquity --no-migration-assistant