I was installing, and upon installing the boot loader fails to install , crashing the installer. I have this problem with other distros including the RPM-based ones. Usually I can erase the SSD, and retry, it's still highly frustrating.

Bug #1836613 reported by Ryan Pochmara
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Bug Description

My computer's specs are: Toshiba Satellite P75-A7100 Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 250GB WD SSD and a 120GB PNY SSD in the other port. I attempted to install via PNY 8GB USB flash drive.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubiquity 18.04.14.12 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-15.16~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.394
Date: Mon Jul 15 11:39:13 2019
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu-mate.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
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: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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