Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-coreboot-bin
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grub-coreboot-bin
grub-coreboot-bin 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 package contains GRUB modules that have been built for use with
platforms running the Coreboot firmware. It can be installed in parallel
with other flavours, but will not automatically install GRUB as the active
boot loader nor automatically update grub.cfg on upgrade unless
grub-coreboot is also installed.
Package: grub-coreboot-bin
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: 1971
Depends: grub-common (= 2.04-1ubuntu26)
Conflicts: grub-linuxbios (« 2.04-1ubuntu26)
Replaces: grub-common (<= 1.97~beta2-1), grub-coreboot (« 1.99-1), grub-linuxbios, grub2 (« 2.04-1ubuntu26)
Filename: pool/universe/g/grub2/grub-coreboot-bin_2.04-1ubuntu26_amd64.deb
Size: 622524
MD5sum: e4c5e05e5d471da9718581fcbfe36560
SHA1: d322ead56de4d636ab8df434872d15c3c9b19310
SHA256: c1312fc84657eae754aa2c94485084ff01cd3c1236b2b1c5ac3200b81436c766
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Description-en: GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (Coreboot modules)
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 package contains GRUB modules that have been built for use with
platforms running the Coreboot firmware. It can be installed in parallel
with other flavours, but will not automatically install GRUB as the active
boot loader nor automatically update grub.cfg on upgrade unless
grub-coreboot is also installed.
There are three methods to install grub-coreboot-bin
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-bin 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-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grub-coreboot-bin
Install grub-coreboot-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grub-coreboot-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grub-coreboot-bin
Install grub-coreboot-bin 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-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grub-coreboot-bin
How To Uninstall grub-coreboot-bin on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grub-coreboot-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grub-coreboot-bin
Uninstall grub-coreboot-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grub-coreboot-bin
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-bin
Remove grub-coreboot-bin Configurations and Data
To remove grub-coreboot-bin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grub-coreboot-bin
Remove grub-coreboot-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grub-coreboot-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grub-coreboot-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grub-coreboot-bin
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.