32bit Linux Host with UEFI

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I worked out virtualbox supports ia32 or 32bit efi

I've managed to install ubuntu 32bit using BIOS and installing ubuntu in sda2 using gpt partitioning scheme. using ubuntu live cd in BIOS mode I created fat32 EFI partition sda1. After installing ubuntu I booted using BIOS mode then I installed guest addons. ubuntu will not boot in UEFI if guest addons is not setup. Then I mounted /dev/sda1 to /mnt/efi and I copied grubia32.efi and grub.cfg from /boot to /mnt/efi/efi/boot

Now I have configured an initial 32-bit UEFI bootloader for ubuntu. I motherboard I enabled EFI and got efi shell. I loaded grubia32.efi

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blk3:
cd /efi/boot
grubia32.efi

and ubuntu booted in EFI mode I then ran

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sudo apt-get install grub-efi

and ran

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sudo grub-install

this installed the bootloader properly from within the os.

I have issues, from F2 before the os boots I add a boot entry but this does not get saved.
also

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modprobe efivars

and

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efibootmgr

gives no output
Any ideas?