I can second this problem.  I was faced with this dialogue twice during
the install, and it was not clear what the path forward was for me.  The
options of "Back" and "Forward" don't give any idea as to what to do.
The first time, I hit "Forward," with the impression that the LILO
bootloader would be installed instead of GRUB.  By the context of the
dialogue:

"Grub won't work in xfs filesystems. Do you want to use LILO instead?"
(roughly)

This seems to be a logical conclusion.  But I had a problem of not being
able to boot in the end.  On second attempt, I hit the "Back" option.
This time, I was expecting some way to change the bootloader to LILO on
the previous screen.  None was found.  So I used the workaround
mentioned above and made a 250MB /boot partition using ext3.

Suggested solution:  Add LILO option to the partitioner, and change the
dialogue to act:

"Grub won't work in XFS filesystems.  Do you want to install LILO instead?"
Answers:  "Yes" or "Back"

"Yes" should proceed to install LILO as bootloader.

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failed grub/lilo support for xfs filesystem
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156999
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