Bug#773004: grub-pc: annoys with EFI debconf prompt

[Steve McIntyre]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:22:04PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>Package: grub-pc
>Version: 2.02~beta2-18
>Severity: minor
>
>Since short, grub-pc annoys with a new debconf prompt.
>I’ve now encountered it the third time in a few days,
>so I thought I better report it, as it seems nobody
>else did.
>
>   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┤ Configuring grub-pc ├─────────────────────────────────────────┐
>   │                                                                                                         │
>   │ Some EFI-based systems are buggy and do not handle new bootloaders correctly. If you force extra        │
>   │ installation of GRUB to the EFI removable path, it should make sure that this system will boot Debian   │
>   │ correctly despite such a problem. However, this may remove the ability to boot any other operating      │
>   │ systems that also depend on this path. If so, you will need to ensure that GRUB is configured           │
>   │ successfully to be able boot any other OS installations correctly.                                      │
>   │                                                                                                         │
>   │ Force extra installation to the EFI removable path?                                                     │
>   │                                                                                                         │
>   │                              <Yes>                                 <No>                                 │
>   │                                                                                                         │
>   └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>
>This belongs into the grub-efi package or so, methinks,
>but most certainly not in anything that would be installed
>on a nōn-EFI system.

Yes, you're correct. This didn't show up in my testing of that
change. :-( Looks like I've screwed something up. Looking now...

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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