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Jonathan Heathcote (mossblaser) wrote :

As bit of extra context, this issue was also reported in a MAAS bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1642298

After quite a lot of discussion (which batted around whose responsibility this was between Curtin, MAAS and the Grub package), a patch was made to MAAS which sets the relevant debconf value in its deployments:

https://github.com/maas/maas/commit/c83fb7a7cff0b500287b63a49c75795e36abb0ef#diff-232e9092429d4dda319bd41dec000672943641c8eca454bb3ffea4bf5a78dcb6R529

A bug was also filed with the grub package with plenty of discussion along the lines of grub's default behavior being undesirable:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1714090

Unfortunately no fix appears forthcoming.