Comment 10 for bug 185878

Is this 4+ years old Ubuntu-specific nuisance responsible as well, for what is happening here?

from my failed Jaunty Desktop installation trials Syslog (--> Bug #369048):

Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --prefix=/boot/grub (hd0,8)
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: Checking if "/boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: Running "embed /boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5 (hd0,8)"... 18 sectors are embedded.
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: succeeded
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: Running "install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,8) (hd0,8)1+18 p (hd0,8)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... failed
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer:
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: Error 6: Mismatched or corrupt version of stage1/stage2
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: grub> quit
Apr 29 04:55:16 ubuntu grub-installer: error: Running 'grub-install --no-floppy "/dev/sda9"' failed.

The designated partitions (all extended) have been created from OS/2 in order to avoid OS/2 LVM and boot manager issues.
/home =1GB, / =4GB, /swap =3.5GB.
I then pointed the installer to use sda8 as /home, sda9 as / and sda10 as /swap and also format the first 2 as JFS.
I further chose in the Extended, Enhanced, Advanced or whatever the exact name of this option is, to put the initial GRUB boot-loader code into the PBR of sda9, in another installation trial into sda8, but neither worked.

The installation, no matter if started from Gnome via the icon or already at the beginning from the Desktop-CD's boot-options, always failed in the same way and I ended up with the Live-CD Desktop.

If I'm not mistaken, there then should be /target/boot/grub, however /grub doesn't exist there.