On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 12:14:40AM -0000, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Why would you want to install grub-efi if you can't update the EFI boot
> catalog?  Without that, it can't be booted in EFI mode.

Because with shim's 'fallback' implementation, a system that could not
update the boot catalog in nvram because it was not booted under UEFI
initially still stands a chance of auto-configuring itself to be able to
boot Ubuntu, via selecting the disk for boot from the firmware boot
selector.

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  Support for grub upgrades with bios+uefi bootloader targets

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