Public bug reported:

I recently had a RAID-5 disk failure and was greeted by an inoperable
grub due to not having installed grub on all the disks.  I temporarily
fixed this problem by manually running "grub-install" on the other disks
in the array and got my system working.

Previously it was advised to run "dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc" and select
the relevant disks to ensure that future grub updates installed on all
the disks in the array.  This command no longer prompts for the install
disks due to the changed introduced by
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1889556.  In
/var/lib/dpkg/info/grub-pc.postinst, the following elif block
immediately precedes the elif block that prompts for grub-
pc/install_devices and short circuits on all recent grub versions:

  elif dpkg --compare-versions "$2" ge 2.04-1ubuntu26; then
    # Avoid the possibility of breaking grub on SRU update
    # due to ABI change
    :

I can confirm this issue is present on 20.04.1 and it appears to be
present on 18.04.4 per https://askubuntu.com/questions/1212569/dpkg-
reconfigure-grub-pc-no-option-to-select-boot-device

** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc no longer prompts for grub-pc/install_devices

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