UEFI install failed to install grub on system with non-UEFI windows install

Bug #1752229 reported by Yvon
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

Early in the install process there was a warning about a non-UEFI operating system which may not be accessible after proceeding with a UEFI ubuntu install. I didn't really care about losing the other OS so I proceeded. Later in the install process grub failed to install.

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 22:44:56 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=en_CA.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Yvon (yvon-muc) wrote :
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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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