fail to install grub

Bug #1579965 reported by azophy
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

My laptop already contain windows 8.1 and ubuntu 14.04. The ubuntu is new, while the ubuntu is pretty old, thats why I wish to install the new ubuntu. But when I run the installer, it stopped at the grub installation process with error 'grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install into /target/'. I've tried some sugesstion on the forums to re-run the installer with internet connected & "download update" option checked, but the same problem still remains

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Tue May 10 07:42:29 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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azophy (azophy) wrote :
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted the 16.04 installer in EFI mode. A warning message prompted you that this could be a problem and recommended performing a bios mode install instead, but you chose not to. You either need to perform the bios mode install, 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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