This bug still occurs in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. In my case, I had a NTFS partition on my second hard drive (on /dev/sdb5) that I wanted to use for Ubuntu. During the installation I chose manual partition configuration, where I selected the NTFS partition and formatted it with ext3 and / as the mount point.
The installation failed at 94% with "Execution of grub-install (hd0) failed" and grub wouldn't boot. In fact, the partition type was still 0x7 (NTFS) instead of 0x83, so grub couldn't find the files. I reformatted the partition using openSUSE 10.3, reinstalled and now it works. So I can confirm the installer still doesn't change the partition type, only the file system. This is quite a major bug, in my opinion. -- Executing 'grub-install (hd0)' failed (due to divergency of partition type and filesystem type) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/128668 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
