Bug#926178: grub2 efi boot installs grub.cfg file that seems to be ignored (just stays at prompt)

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Norbert,

On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 12:00:41PM +0200, Norbert Lange wrote:
>I got newer versions to work by adding the "--no-uefi-secure-boot" switch,
>so apparently uefi-secure-boot is not working for me.
>
>older versions might have defaulted to not using it,
>or I did not have the shim packages installed.

I'm curious how you got here. Did you install with Recommends
disabled? There's a Recommends: chain from grub-efi-amd64-bin to
grub-efi-amd64-signed to shim-signed which should cause shim-signed to
be installed.

Does installing shim-signed fix your problem?

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