How To Install grub-coreboot on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-coreboot on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grub-coreboot
grub-coreboot is:
GRUB is a portable, powerful bootloader. This version of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors, and provides the following new features:
- Scripting in grub.cfg using BASH-like syntax.
- Support for modern partition maps such as GPT.
- Modular generation of grub.cfg via update-grub. Packages providing GRUB add-ons can plug in their own script rules and trigger updates by invoking update-grub.
This is a dependency package for a version of GRUB that has been built for use with platforms running the Coreboot firmware. Installing this package indicates that this version of GRUB should be the active boot loader.
Package: grub-coreboot Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.04-1ubuntu26 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/admin Source: grub2 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 178 Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub2-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub-coreboot-bin (= 2.04-1ubuntu26), ucf Conflicts: grub (« 0.97-54), grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-linuxbios (« 2.04-1ubuntu26), grub-pc, grub-xen Replaces: grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-efi-amd64, grub-efi-ia32, grub-ieee1275, grub-legacy, grub-linuxbios, grub-pc, grub2 (« 2.04-1ubuntu26) Filename: pool/universe/g/grub2/grub-coreboot_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb Size: 46592 MD5sum: a7831f86171281635f475df636b57354 SHA1: c74ce776cdff85d7e59814a4c2dbd5a0af7734df SHA256: cb1b57d1f295402f4270e75db12c1592be881345aaa002a4c5c4e4801be5abb3 Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Coreboot version) GRUB is a portable, powerful bootloader. This version of GRUB is based on a cleaner design than its predecessors, and provides the following new features:
- Scripting in grub.cfg using BASH-like syntax.
- Support for modern partition maps such as GPT.
- Modular generation of grub.cfg via update-grub. Packages providing GRUB add-ons can plug in their own script rules and trigger updates by invoking update-grub.
This is a dependency package for a version of GRUB that has been built for use with platforms running the Coreboot firmware. Installing this package indicates that this version of GRUB should be the active boot loader.
There are three methods to install grub-coreboot on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install grub-coreboot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-coreboot using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-coreboot
Install grub-coreboot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-coreboot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-coreboot
Install grub-coreboot Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-coreboot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-coreboot
How To Uninstall grub-coreboot on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-coreboot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-coreboot
Uninstall grub-coreboot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-coreboot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grub-coreboot
Remove grub-coreboot Configurations and Data
To remove grub-coreboot configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-coreboot
Remove grub-coreboot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-coreboot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-coreboot
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-coreboot package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
