grub-install problem

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Sat Mar 9 12:08:20 UTC 2019


On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 10:20:31AM +0100, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 1:02 AM Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
> > In the past I had to use --force because it would not rewrite grub without it.
> 
> Try without it first. With i386-pc, it allows you to install grub to a
> partition. On x86_64-efi, who knows what it does. Maybe nothing; maybe
> it force writes nvram variables.

On x86_64-efi, --force currently has no effect.  (Of course it might
have some effect in the future, but it doesn't right now.)

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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