I have encountered this twice installing on a DELL inspiron 9200 from CD 6.05 LTS. At about 99% completion I get a message saying there was a GRUB installation error. I choose to continue and seconds later get the crash error mentioned above.
-installing to USB drive, full formatting and partitioning -- Installer crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/55968 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs