vinceh121 wrote: > >Southern French government is handing out laptops (HP ProBook x360 G1 >EE) to students, whom a lot of want to install a Linux distro on. > >However, many distros installs are broken by grub-install either safely >failing, or making the kernel hang while trying to write NVRAM boot >options. I've confirmed this on Debian Buster and Bullseye. > >This causes the netinst images to give us a mostly working installation, >except for a config-less GRUB. For now, we've gone around this by >manually booting with the GRUB CLI, and then running grub-install with >the --no-nvram option. > >However, the problem reappears when running apt upgrade. > >Is there a way to mitigate this problem? Maybe a way to tell >grub-install to always use --no-nvram?
Yup. See https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Firmware_does_not_support_setting_boot_variables -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
