Apparently the problem was that the installation program could not cope with a RAID array that I had in the machine (but that was not used to install). I disconnected the two RAID disks, and the installation went smoothly.
I wonder if this is something that can be improved: I selected the non- RAID disk for the installation, and the partitions ended up on the right disk, but something went wrong after that (possibly the installation of grub?). In one of the many attempts I received a specific error about grub-install failing on /dev/sda (that is one of the two RAID disks). However, none of the choices I got to solve the problem worked: I could choose the right disk (/dev/sdc in my case), install without grub or abort the installation, but whatever I choose, pressing OK had no effect. Also in all the other attempts, I did not receive the grub-install error, but just a generic crash report. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1657419 Title: 16.04 Installation crashes with separate home partition To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1657419/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
