Ubuntu
grub-installer package

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1778848
  3. Comment #25

Comment 25 for bug 1778848

Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote : Re: [Bug 1778848] Re: Support for grub upgrades with bios+uefi bootloader targets

On 07/02/2018 12:51 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.
>
 You mean we are now installing a "removable media" boot loader in
EFI/BOOT that chainloads the one in EFI/Ubuntu?