Public bug reported: Installation of 10.04 fails in VirtualBox if disk is unpartitioned. The result is that no partitions are created at all which causes grub- install to fail.
Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a virtual machine in virtualbox 2) Attach ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso to CD 3) Boot virtual machine 4) Choose to install 5) Every configuration step proceeds without any errors but at the very last part of installation grub-install fails since there are no partitions on disk 6) Choose proceed without running grub-install does not work either since there are no partitions there is nothing saved to the disk. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Installation fails with unpartitioned disk under VirtualBox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/595844 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