Re: [PATCH v2] grub-install: Mention *efibootmgr* in `no-nvram` description

["Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

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On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, 17:03 Paul Menzel, <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 15:15:45 +0200
>
> If executing `efibootmgr` fails, for example, because the system is
> booted in legacy mode, but with a mounted EFI System Partition, the
> error message mentions *efibootmgr*. To make it easier for users to work
> around that problem by skipping running `efibootmgr`, add the word to
> the description of the switch *no-nvram*, which skips the efibootmgr
> execution.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
> ---
> v2: Add Signed-off-by line
>
>  util/grub-install.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/util/grub-install.c b/util/grub-install.c
> index a44858198..335662a58 100644
> --- a/util/grub-install.c
> +++ b/util/grub-install.c
> @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static struct argp_option options[] = {
>     N_("disk module to use (biosdisk or native). "
>        "This option is only available on BIOS target."), 2},
>    {"no-nvram", OPTION_NO_NVRAM, 0, 0,
> -   N_("don't update the `boot-device'/`Boot*' NVRAM variables. "
> +   N_("don't run efibootmgr to update the `boot-device'/`Boot*' NVRAM
> variables. "
>        "This option is only available on EFI and IEEE1275 targets."), 2},
>
In case of ieee1275 this has nothing to do with efibootmgr

>    {"skip-fs-probe",'s',0,      0,
>     N_("do not probe for filesystems in DEVICE"), 0},
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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