Found by an emulated install: Subiquity refuses --username admin (a system group) at boot with 'Username is reserved by the system', after the user has already written the stick. Check against subiquity's reserved-usernames list at build time instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm