11.10 amd64 LUKS+LVM install fails to install grub

[987a654]

Hi all,

using the alternate ISO I am trying to install Ubuntu 64bit with the following setup:

root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.6.14

Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 8C5F38B2-BFAB-4A48-8720-5E6BB4434046
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1465149134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 1058782 sectors (517.0 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 411647 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System
2 675840 677887 1024.0 KiB EF02 BIOS boot partition
3 942080 3039231 1024.0 MiB 0700 Linux/Windows data -- ext4 mounted at /boot
4 3303424 1464884942 696.9 GiB 8E00 LUKS container

with 1 volume group and 3 logical volumes
4G swap
50G /home using btrfs
20G /root using btrfs

Ubuntu Install fails at the select and install software step after configuring apt and also fails to install grub.

The grub-pc package failed to install into /target/. Without the GRUB boot loader the installed system will not boot.


I even get this when I tried the setup with MBR partition table with just two partitions:

sda1 /boot
sda2 LUKS+LVM

Am I doing something wrong?

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Kind regards,
Yudi

[rumplstielz]

I don't think you are doing anything wrong. Same here with the normal amd64 desktop install cd for 11.10 ... grub fails to install on /dev/mapper/nvidiablablabla, which is my striped HD from the internal raid controller. I am playing around with this for 3 days and no success to install ubuntu 11.10 ... this is a mess. Think I will go to fedorra, as there seems to be no solution. The beta, btw, installed normal 3 months ago.