Re: UEFI refusing NVRAM writes, breaking GRUB install and upgrade
vinceh121 wrote:
>
>Southern French government is handing out laptops (HP ProBook x360 G1
>EE) to students, whom a lot of want to install a Linux distro on.
>
>However, many distros installs are broken by grub-install either safely
>failing, or making the kernel hang while trying to write NVRAM boot
>options. I've confirmed this on Debian Buster and Bullseye.
>
>This causes the netinst images to give us a mostly working installation,
>except for a config-less GRUB. For now, we've gone around this by
>manually booting with the GRUB CLI, and then running grub-install with
>the --no-nvram option.
>
>However, the problem reappears when running apt upgrade.
>
>Is there a way to mitigate this problem? Maybe a way to tell
>grub-install to always use --no-nvram?
Yup. See https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Firmware_does_not_support_setting_boot_variables
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