Public bug reported: Clean install, did not do anything special, formatted my drive and went on with installing.
Old system were debian9 with legacy bios boot (non uefi) Booted this from USB pendrive as UEFI and began installing. got the warning about dualbooting but i dismissed it. removed all partitions on my drive and created a single partition of 110GB (120GB drive) and selected mounting point. - take note, no swap partition. right in the end i got the message about not able to write grub. and then this bug report started. 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: Fri Oct 20 18:19:02 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) ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug artful -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1725365 Title: Clean install in UEFI mode, unable to write grub. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1725365/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs