Comment 17 for bug 1821252

Tested friendly-recovery 0.2.31ubuntu2.1 on Xenial.

Same procedure as Bionic. Reached recovery menu even after running set-default.

apt-cache policy friendly-recovery

friendly-recovery:
  Installed: 0.2.31ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 0.2.31ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.2.31ubuntu2.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.2.31ubuntu2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
     0.2.31 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages