Grub won't install during first install

Bug #1752066 reported by Jeroen Donkervoort
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Trying to install onto a ACER X3990 as dual boot. W10 is installed. Ignored the UEFI warning. Installation stopped when GRUB was to be installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.388
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Feb 27 12:47:34 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180225)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nl_NL.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jeroen Donkervoort (jpd68) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

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.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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