[Bug 1798993] Re: GRUB installer crashes during installation

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

* How are you partitioning the disk?
* What do you see when you boot the Live CD? A purple background with the Ubuntu logo, or just a text menu?

This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

A BIOS Boot partition is not optional if the disk is formatted in MBR
format -- if you want to avoid that, and only ever boot the disk in UEFI
mode, then you can write a new partition table to  it in GPT format
using the installer's custom partitioning screen, then going back to
pick "Entire disk" and let it partition the disk automatically.

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Title:
  GRUB installer crashes during installation

Status in grub-installer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Trying to install 18.10 to a SSD, grub installer crashes with a fatal
  error

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
  Package: ubiquity 18.10.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-10.11-generic 4.18.12
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-10-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperVersion: 1.399
  Date: Sat Oct 20 19:38:55 2018
  InstallCmdLine: file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd quiet splash --- maybe-ubiquity
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3)
  SourcePackage: grub-installer
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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