> You can just run grub-install once by hand, and it will all update correctly afterwards.
The package already has a good debconf-driven install process for GRUB ---requiring the user to do it manually not only discards the benefit of that, it's a delicate and error-prone operation that most users are not accustomed to doing (hence wrapping it in debconf). The core of the problem is the chicken-and-egg scenario of requiring GRUB to be installed in order to install GRUB. I just want to do e.g. "dpkg-reconfigure grub-efi-amd64" on a newborn system, and have the instalL_devices question come up. Right now, in order to get that, I have to fool the postinst script by running "touch /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/core.efi" beforehand. That's not a reasonable UI. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1879558 Title: grub-efi-amd64 postinst fails to install GRUB if previous GRUB install is not detected To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1879558/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
