The failed installation apparently stopped when launching grub. In fact, the partitions I wanted were populated, the /boot/grub dir was populated, but menu.lst was not there.
I discovered that /dev/hdc is in fact (hd1), not (hd2), so I launched the installer again, telling it to reformat the root partition, but this time it crashed right after the dialog with the list of filesystems: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 166, in ? main() File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 161, in main install(sys.argv[1]) File "/usr/bin/ubiquity", line 57, in install ret = wizard.run() File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 305, in run self.process_step() File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 850, in process_step self.mountpoints_to_summary() File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtkui.py", line 1155, in mountpoints_to_summary for device, mountpoint in self.auto_mountpoints.iteritems(): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iteritems' -- installer crash on hd2 https://launchpad.net/bugs/78759 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs