Ubuntu
grub-installer package

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1778848
  3. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1778848

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1778848] Re: Support for grub upgrades with bios+uefi bootloader targets

On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 12:14:40AM -0000, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Why would you want to install grub-efi if you can't update the EFI boot
> catalog? Without that, it can't be booted in EFI mode.

Because with shim's 'fallback' implementation, a system that could not
update the boot catalog in nvram because it was not booted under UEFI
initially still stands a chance of auto-configuring itself to be able to
boot Ubuntu, via selecting the disk for boot from the firmware boot
selector.