[Bug 1682336] Re: reformatted hard drive after bug with xfce desktop, re-install now failing

[Phillip Susi]

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

** Changed in: grub-installer (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  reformatted hard drive after bug with xfce desktop, re-install now
  failing

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I think this is a newbie mistake. I already have a desktop interface.
  I was following a digital ocean tutorial for setting up VNC. Part of
  it was installing xfce desktop. My system started being buggy (in
  steam Warhammer wouldn't display models, on reboot I would type in my
  password and the screen would go black, and then it would prompt me
  for my password again). I decided to do a complete system re-install.
  I got a message that the install is now failing because of not being
  able to access a drive or something.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3 [modified: lib/partman/automatically_partition/question]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.376.2
  Date: Wed Apr 12 22:53:24 2017
  InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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