Installer fails to install Grub and crashes

Bug #1764861 reported by zemudkram
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Bug Description

The installer failed to install the uefi bootloader, and then crashed immediately after.

Samsung NP300E5A

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.6 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Wed Apr 18 08:26:33 2018
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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zemudkram (zemudkram) wrote :
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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1766945, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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