[Bug 1778656] Re: Installer crashes due to bootloader not installing.

[Phillip Susi]

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted
the installer in EFI mode. You either need to boot the installer in bios
mode, or partition the disk using GPT and set up an EFI system partition
to install in EFI mode. This will be done for you if you choose the "use
entire disk" guided install option.

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Installer crashes due to bootloader not installing.

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I've been trying to get Ubuntu 18.04 installed no the laptop. I have
  4x drives and I'm installing in /dev/sde which is a 250Gb SSD. Setup
  custom BRTFS partitions, 100Gb (/), 100Gb (home), 8Gb (Swap), free
  space for SSD over-provisioning. Got a "cannot install bootloader on
  /dev/sde", tried changing to /dev/sda, sda1, etc.... but the installer
  didn't allow to cancel or change anything.

  In this last attempt I've let the installer erase the entire disk and
  choose it's own partition setup using LVM. Now there is a different
  error.

  This same laptop has been running Centos 7 and Mint for several years
  without a problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubiquity 18.04.14 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.394
  Date: Tue Jun 26 00:33:58 2018
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity acpi=off quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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