[Bug 1741487] Re: Installer should tell you that you can't install grub to a location where it can't be installed instead of crashing

[Simon Quigley]

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Installer should tell you that you can't install grub to a location
  where it can't be installed instead of crashing

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 17.10 Budgie from 2018-01-05

  While using the Ubuntu Installer
  Selecting "Something else"
  doing partition stuff, i can also select to use where to install the bootloader.
  Installation of the OS succeeds, however if one installs the bootloader on a device which does not have a DOS partition table (maybe GPT works, i am not sure) it fails with "execution of grub-install failed" or similar.
  The Problem was, where I wanted to install the bootloader had a ISO9660 partition table. (This was not the same device where I booted the live Ubuntu from.)

  For a neater  experience I would suggest a dialog, which asks to
  overwrite the partition table before trying to install the bootloader

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