grub-install problem

[Tom H]

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 1:10 PM Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 10:20:31AM +0100, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 1:02 AM Bob <ubuntu-qygzanxc at listemail.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> In the past I had to use --force because it would not rewrite grub
>>> without it.
>>
>> Try without it first. With i386-pc, it allows you to install grub
>> to a partition. On x86_64-efi, who knows what it does. Maybe
>> nothing; maybe it force writes nvram variables.
>
> On x86_64-efi, --force currently has no effect. (Of course it might
> have some effect in the future, but it doesn't right now.)

Many thanks.