Yes that matches my experience. When I went through the install again and went the other way with the bios/uefi decision, everything seemed to work out.
The text of the final error message, and the text of the BIOS/UEFI dialog box earlier on, were not sufficient to initially make a connection in my mind. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682321 Title: installing 16.04, grub failed to install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub-installer/+bug/1682321/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs