latest ubuntu install failed

[james dammeier]

trying to install latest ubuntu from 16.04lts failed

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ubiquity 17.10.10
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: Wed Mar 7 13:01:02 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)

[Gustavo Silva (gsilvapt)]

Were you trying do-release-upgrade or were you trying with a fresh USB image?

[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.