failed install

[James Fry]

ubuntu failed to install

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ubiquity 17.10.10 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.387
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jan 20 09:45:30 2018
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20180105.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Edgar Orendain (orendain)]

I tried multiple approaches reported by other people with the same issue. After not having much success, I ended up installing 17.04, which went through fine, and then upgraded 17.04 to 17.10.

I then decided to try installing 17.10 cleanly, one last time. FWIW, that finally went through fine.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted the 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.