Installing Ubuntu for the first time. Created the bios boot area. On disk it was showing size as 16 MB, but during creation the selction indow showed it as 17 MB. While installing the bios boot, some error occured. Hence rporting the issue.

[Rajeev Arora]

I have downloaded the latest beta version of Ubuntu Mate 16.04.

Created a USB bootable for installation as suggested on your website.

In BIOS, I had to select the legacy support (with legacy boot as he first boot option), as the USB was not otherwise recognized. I am using the same USB stick, which I used to install Windows 10 on this machine. That time the USB got recognized easily.

Created /boot of 350 MB, swap of 10240 MB and around 240 GB of / (root). Later on I was informed to have at least 1 MB assigned for bios boot. I had an already existing partion of 16 MB, which I selected for it.

Installation failed because of some issue with bios boot. I do not want to lose my windows and hence terminating installation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.46 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-7.22-generic 4.4.2
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.367
Date: Tue Mar 22 07:51:28 2016
InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity cdrom-detect/try-usb=true noprompt floppy.allowed_drive_mask=0 ignore_uuid initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --- BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160224)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

You chose to install grub to /dev/sda3 instead of /dev/sda. You need to leave it on /dev/sda.