I agree this shouldn't be Wishlist. I mentioned one other thing that
would be nice to have when fixing an enormous error, and that was a
mistake.
grub-install un-installs things. That's a big bug.
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The bug is somewhat worse than in the original report: grub-install will
remove anything that has "Ubuntu" (case INsensitive!) in it's name. In a
test, both "RAID Ubuntu /dev/sdc", "Ubuntu /dev/sdc" were removed by
grub-install. A label "RAID fallback /dev/sdc" would survive a call to
grub-install.
cyphermox, as for your complaint about grubx64.efi, I don't understand
it and I don't think I ever typed that anywhere, so it must have come
from grub. My "grub-install" just passes through things like that in
"$@".
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> AIUI you can have the same label as many times as you want
FWIW, my practical attempts say the same name can be used any number of
times on some computers.
I don't like the same name, though. I don't think every boot should be a
mystery about which I'm picking. It's not like the EFI menu has an
In theory this is fine, but in practice will need more work.
For instance, in your examples grubx64.efi is being installed as the EFI
binary to run -- this is wrong, since grubx64.efi is only signed by the
Canonical keys, not by Microsoft keys, and so will fail to boot in a
Secure Boot scenario.
My suggestion for a change is that the device id is used to construct a
more complex bootloader id.
$ sudo efibootmgr
BootCurrent:
Timeout: 5 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0001,
Boot* ubuntu via WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M6HVCKR8
Boot0001* ubuntu via WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-WCC4M6PP1ZJK
B
I just wrote this to do what I want it to do. I suspect this is beyond
most users.
I don't think this should be part of the package, but I think what it
does is a good idea. Include the device name and serial number in the
EFI boot description. "ubuntu" was never enough anyway.
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There is a "--bootloader-id=" argument to grub-install that lets you
choose a different name and only remove other entries with that new
name. So, if you're careful, you can choose unique names for each and
get other entries.
It's wrong and weird to remove anything by running "install" though. It
