Package: grub-efi-amd64
Version: 2.02+dfsg1-4
Severity: wishlist
Currently, you can have both grub-{pc,efi-amd64}-bin installed, but you
can only have one or the other of grub-{pc,efi-amd64}, as the packages
conflict with each other. This means that only one grub-install --target
is supported in Debian's configuration framework at any one time.
(It is already possible to install both grub-*-bin packages and invoke
grub-install with the desired --target manually, but this occurs outside
of the Debian framework and so is not a good long-term solution.)
I would like to request making it possible to install both packages
simultaneously, with an appropriate configuration mechanism to
disable one, both, or none. There are at least a couple of use cases
I can see for this:
1. Assembling system images that can support both BIOS and EFI booting
without needing to install/remove any packages to switch from one
mode to the other;
2. A Debian install on e.g. a portable USB hard drive with a hybrid
MBR/GPT partition table that supports *both* the BIOS and EFI
boot paths.
