Fatal error installing Ubuntu 17.10 from dvd

[Eric Canon]

Said bootloader failed. I aborted the install and it warned me I would possibly need to install a boot loader manually. I have no idea how to do that. I had the Ubuntu 16 version sucessfully installed and I thought I would install the new version. When I booted from the download disc of 17.10 it did not see my previously installed Ubuntu 16 which was okay as I did that yesterday and I lost no data.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: ubiquity 17.10.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.387
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 22 16:51:16 2017
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
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)

[Eric Canon (canonmetals)]

Complete.

[Eric Canon (canonmetals)]

My machine is a Lenovo ThinkPad and before I ran the DVD I touched the blue thinkvantage button which put me into bios. From there I selected escape and ran the DVD. That may have compromised the boot agent. So I restarted the machine and ran from the DVD with out the Blue button and I'm all installed and loving this latest Ubuntu version. All's well.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

You tried to install grub to /dev/dm-0, which is an LVM logical volume. It needs to be installed to a hard disk, such as /dev/sda.

[Eric Powell (eriji)]

I had the same error come up. I was installing on a Dell Optiplex desktop.

I clicked on OK and got a further message "Bootloader install failed" "Sorry, an error occurred and it was not possible to install the bootloader at the specified location."
"How would you like to proceed?
() Choose a different device to install the bootloader on:
 [gives dropdown with choices of all the devices]
() Continue without a bootloader
() Cancel the installation.

I chose "Choose a...." and selected "/dev/sda" from the drop down, which was the correct device for the drive I was installing onto.

Clicked OK and it just sat there did nothing. [repeated several times with same result]

I tried other choices and was not able to get the installation to proceed.

[Eric Powell (eriji)]

Tried the install again, but removed other drives from the system (there was an external usb backup and a thumb drive usb plugged in). Got exactly the same result: error and could not answer the dialog box to continue. Had to power-off reboot and start install over.

[Eric Powell (eriji)]

See also:
Testing Alpha 2 install couldnt install grub Edit
Bug #1708880

[Eric Powell (eriji)]

I reran the install again and everything was the same EXCEPT I did NOT select LVM.

The install completed this time.