installer crash (grub2) during installation in UEFI mode

[ErikH]

A few days back I installed Ubuntu on msata ssd successfully with same usb stick (using "accidentially" legacy bios mode).
Today I replaced internal 2.5 inch hdd with 2.5 inch ssd to install Ubuntu in UEFI mode.
But installation fails with the following error in /target/log/log/apt/history.log

Install: grub-efi-amd64-bin:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.2, automatic), grub-efi-amd64:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.2, automatic), grub-efi-amd64-signed:amd64 (1.66.2+2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.2)
Upgrade: grub-common:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.1, 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.2), grub2-common:amd64 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.1, 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.2)
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
End-Date: 2016-09-30 16:18:21

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Fri Sep 30 16:23:45 2016
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Your disk is currently partitioned to boot in bios mode, but you booted the 16.04 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.