Comment 17 for bug 703009

> Perhaps we can contribute to fixing by stating what hardware/config we have.
I have nothing special: A Vostro 1500 with a new harddrive (no RAID or something).

Anticipating the problems with the graphical installer, I installed Ubuntu 11.04 final with the alternate installer (on ext4 this time). Setting up grub now worked without a hiccup.
(The installation aborted with errors installing the base system the first time I tried, though. The second try (with seemingly no relevant differences in the configuration) worked flawlessly.)