Problem is still there in 16.04 LTS (pre-release).

In my case I have a laptop with one internal disk and I'm installing on
an external USB-attached disk (/dev/sda and /dev/sdc respectively).

The result makes no sense to me. If I boot the laptop without the
external disk, I end up at a Grub command prompt. I can't boot from the
external disk because there's no boot loader on it. Surely I should be
able to boot a system from one or the other disk alone.

The internal disk is mounted as /boot/efi, and has EFI/ubuntu/grub.cfg
with the content:

search.fs_uuid xxxx root hd2,gpt2
set prefix=($root)'/boot/grub'
configfile $prefix/grub.cfg

where xxxx is the UUID of the root partition on the external disk. So
it's quite deliberately requiring both disks to be present.

Let's at least have a warning message that the internal disk will be
modified. There is no mention of /dev/sda in the installation, only a
warning that /dev/sdc will be changed (see screenshots).

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