[Bug 1450783] Re: grub-install with --bootloader-id option creates unusable boot configuration with secure boot

[Fred Palmer]

I changed GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR so I could tell which install was which.
I have my main working 14.04LTS install on sda, but install other test installs on sdb.
I try to install grub to ESP - efi system partition on sdb and installer even says installing to sdb. But it always installs to sda.
I then try renaming so I can keep them separate in UEFI.

All of these are grubx64.efi with different grub.cfg with  different configfile entries for different UUIDs.
/efi/BOOT/bootx64.efi 
/efi/trusty/grubx64.efi 
 /efi/ubuntu/grubx64.efi 
 /efi/vivid/grubx64.efi 

But they all use the one grub.cfg in /efi/ubuntu.

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Title:
  grub-install with --bootloader-id option creates unusable boot
  configuration with secure boot

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  When manually creating an EFI boot entry using `grub-install
  --bootloader-id=<myid>`, where myid is a string different from
  "ubuntu", the resulting boot configuration is broken.

  The signed grub EFI binary `grubx64.efi` seems to contain a hardcoded
  path to `/EFI/ubuntu`, from which grub will then read the grub.cfg
  configuration file specifying the UUID of the root partition. This
  approach only works if the bootloader id is in fact equal to "ubuntu".

  Either calling grub-install with both an alternative bootloader id and
  UEFI secure boot options should fail and print an error explaining the
  situation, or the signed boot image should be fixed (i.e. the
  hardcoded path removed) so that it reads the grub.cfg from the same
  directory in which the image itself is located, which seems preferable
  because it allows multi-booting more than one Ubuntu installation on
  the same system.

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