Bug#853234: grub-install ignores errors from efibootmgr

[Steve McIntyre]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 06:32:00PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>Package: grub2-common
>Version: 2.02~beta2-22+deb8u1
>Severity: serious
>Tags: upstream
>
>Hi,
>
>As can be seen in #852513 (for example), grub-install will happily
>ignore errors from efibootmgr and claim "Installation finished. No
>error reported". This is clearly bogus, and can lead to users with
>unbootable systems after upgrades with potentially no warning
>up-front (hence the severity).
>
>I've got a small patch prepared locally which I'm about to send
>upstream. I'll add a link here shortly to the mailing list archive.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2017-01/msg00107.html

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