Bug 1286317

Additional information that could help you:
My fedora server is installed on a software raid and an efi bios:

[root@pdrvsrv002 ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md125 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0]
      205760 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]
      bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

md126 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0]
      512704 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
      bitmap: 0/1 pages [0KB], 65536KB chunk

md127 : active raid1 sdb3[2] sda3[0]
      524271616 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
      bitmap: 1/1 pages [4KB], 262144KB chunk

unused devices: <none>

[root@pdrvsrv002 ~]# pvs
  PV         VG     Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
  /dev/md127 fedora lvm2 a--  499.98g 165.38g


[root@pdrvsrv002 ~]# efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,0008,0009,0006,0007
Boot0000* Fedora
Boot0001* Fedora
Boot0006* Hard Drive
Boot0007* Network Card
Boot0008* UEFI OS
Boot0009* UEFI OS


[root@pdrvsrv002 boot]# ls -alrt
total 129142
drwx------.  3 root root    16384 Dec 31  1969 efi
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root      166 Oct  5 11:53 .vmlinuz.hmac-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64
-rw-------.  1 root root  3152021 Oct  5 11:58 System.map-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   160270 Oct  5 11:58 config-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  5977368 Oct  5 11:59 vmlinuz-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 17030360 Nov 10 17:35 xen-syms-4.5.2
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   930213 Nov 10 17:35 xen-4.5.2.gz
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       12 Nov 10 17:35 xen.gz -> xen-4.5.2.gz
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 root root       12 Nov 10 17:35 xen-4.5.gz -> xen-4.5.2.gz
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root      166 Nov 20 17:29 .vmlinuz.hmac-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64
-rw-------.  1 root root  3153903 Nov 20 17:35 System.map-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   160238 Nov 20 17:35 config-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  5980440 Nov 20 17:35 vmlinuz-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64
drwx------.  2 root root    12288 Nov 27 00:51 lost+found
dr-xr-xr-x. 17 root root      224 Nov 27 00:51 ..
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 49442914 Nov 27 00:56 initramfs-0-rescue-3a4348fa23dc43d1805ac93fbde6305d.img
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 root root  5977368 Nov 27 00:56 vmlinuz-0-rescue-3a4348fa23dc43d1805ac93fbde6305d
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 20145140 Nov 27 00:58 initramfs-4.2.3-300.fc23.x86_64.img
drwxr-xr-x.  3 root root     1024 Nov 27 09:42 grub2
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root   217619 Nov 27 09:43 initrd-plymouth.img
-rw-r--r--.  1 root root 19850862 Nov 27 09:44 initramfs-4.2.6-301.fc23.x86_64.img
drwxr-xr-x.  2 root root     1024 Nov 27 09:49 flask

[root@pdrvsrv002 fedora]# ls -alrt /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/
total 7972
-rwx------. 1 root root 1287032 Feb 17  2015 shim-fedora.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 1293304 Feb 17  2015 shim.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 1276224 Feb 17  2015 MokManager.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root     102 Feb 17  2015 BOOT.CSV
-rwx------. 1 root root 2230770 Nov 10 17:35 xen-4.5.2.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 1005384 Nov 20 18:26 grubx64.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 1005384 Nov 20 18:26 gcdx64.efi
drwx------. 4 root root    4096 Nov 27 00:55 ..
drwx------. 2 root root    4096 Nov 27 09:42 fonts
-rwx------. 1 root root    1024 Nov 27 11:39 grubenv
-rwx------. 1 root root   15194 Dec  1 20:24 grub.cfg.orig
-rwx------. 1 root root   15184 Dec  1 20:25 grub.cfg
drwx------. 3 root root    4096 Dec  1 21:08 .

If you need additional information, please let me know. I will try to test to changes on the config file of grub to see if I can make it works but it sound to me that something is missing fro grub to understand the "multiboot" and the "module" directive.

Ok I found a fix:
- First in the grub menu, when I tried to to insmod to install some modules to be able to boot, I got some message indicating that the none of the modules I tried to install was found. So I search what rpm package provide the multiboot.mod module and the other ones. Found that the package grub2-efi-modules-2.02-0.24.fc23.x86_64 was not installed. One installed I found the files in /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi.
After another reboot, still no luck and tried this time again to install manually some modules and found a message saying that the modules could not be found in /EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi.
I reboot using the working fedora boot entry and there are no modules on folder in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/.
I tried to create a symlink to /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi but for some reason it was not working (operation not permitted) So I simple copy the folder x86_64-efi to /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/. And this time I was able to boot Xen.
So I guess the package was not installed after the update (should it be a requirement?) and the path is either not correct or a symlink should be created and checked to be sure the modules are where grub is expecting them.

I haven't found a good way to automate grub efi boot configuration so far. The problem is that multiboot doesn't work under efi (see
http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_EFI ). I currently have a workaround, with the file /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/xen.cfg containing
[global]
default=fedora

[fedora]
options=
kernel=vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/vg1-root ro rd.lvm.lv=vg1/swap rd.lvm.lv=vg1/root rhgb quiet LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ramdisk=initramfs.img

A grub configuration file to create an entry in the grub menu, /etc/grub.d/21_linux_xen_efi containing

#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
menuentry 'Fedora, with Xen EFI' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --
class os --class xen $menuentry_id_option 'xen-gnulinux-simple-12217b01-b7d6-456
1-a50d-d1894122e90c' {
	insmod part_gpt
	insmod fat
	set root='hd0,gpt2'
	if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt2 --hint-ef
i=hd0,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt2  2E64-FD01
	else
	  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 2E64-FD01
	fi
	chainloader /EFI/fedora/xen-4.5.2.efi
}

and by copying the current kernel and initramfs to the files vmlinuz and initramfs.img in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/ though clearly this will need option and partition reference changes to work on your system, also space in the efi partition to hold the files.

I have the same issue.
Workaround: downgrade packets grub2, grub2-efi, grub2-efi-modules, grub2-tools from version 1:2.02-0.24.fc23.x86_64 to 1:2.02-0.23.fc23.x86_64:
su -c 'dnf --allowerasing downgrade grub2-efi-modules'

This looks like a result of the fix for CVE-2015-5281 (see Bug 1264103 ) so is really a grub issue rather than a xen issue.

I had this problem too. I copied the EFI GRUB modules to /boot as described in comment #2, and this allowed EFI to boot Xen/Dom0. I am using the latest Fedora 23 packages.

I too have this problem on Fedora 24 (Server). What is the best workaround? I will try http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_EFI (Xen as EFI binary).

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I am requesting that this bug be reopened. I have the same problem on a fresh install of Fedora 25 with Xen 4.7.1-6.fc25. It has also been reproduced by another user on Fedora 24 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286317#c7). 

I see the following error:

Loading Xen 4.7.1 ...
error: can't find command 'multiboot'. 
Loading Linux 4.8.15-300.fc25.x86_64 ... 
error: can't find command 'module'. 
Loading initial ramdisk ... 
error: can't find command 'module'.

Press any key to continue...

It was suggested above (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1286317#c2) that you can fix this problem by copying /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi into /boot/efi/EFI/fedora. This does not solve the problem for me. It removes the errors, but the system still does not boot, hanging on "Loading initial ramdisk ...". 

I think the working solution is to chainload Xen and write up a simple xen.cfg, as explained in comment #3 above. But I'm not quite able to get it to work yet.

(In reply to Daniel Moerner from comment #10)
> I think the working solution is to chainload Xen and write up a simple
> xen.cfg, as explained in comment #3 above. But I'm not quite able to get it
> to work yet.
I have had difficulties with that with the comment #3 solution with recent versions of grub2. The final F23 version of grub2 works but not at least some of the more recent ones. I keep meaning to investigate it enough to submit a meaningful bug report.

This issue affects me with Fedora 25 and 26. Reopening.

This bug still exists in Fedora 26 ( on Kernel 4.11.11-300.fc26.x86_64 now) and Xen 4.8.1

To expand on the previous workaround of installing the grub2-efi-modules package and moving the files manually to /EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi - I've found that I also have to change my UEFI to boot with CSM support to theoretically support booting from BIOS (even though I am still booting with "UEFI Only").

Hello,

any update here ?
I cannot boot on Xen and i opened a new bug report before realizing there was already this one.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1554088

Can i work with Xen on Fedora without having to do hacks around GRUB2 and UEFI ?

Thanks.

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Hi,

this bug is still here on Fedora 27

i will try to update to Fedora 28 in a week or two, and give you the feedback.

In the meantime, is there anything we can do ?
This bug has been here since a few years it seems... :/

Thank you.

I found F27 usable for EFI boots. You need at least multiboot2.mod and relocator.mod from grub2-efi-x64-modules in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/x86_64-efi/ after which the default grub built grub.cfg will boot xen dom0 though you have to skip a couple of warnings trying to load the non-existent module2 grub module, so for an unattended boot you need to remove the corresponding insmod lines in grub.cfg.

I upgraded to Fedora 28 last week.
Trying again to boot on the Xen GRUB entry gives me the following error:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q7ENf5urEYg65sJJ3

error: Unknown TPM error

So it's different than last time.
Any ideas guys ?

Thanks.

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As stated by the post above, this bug should be reopened, since it's met on Fedora 28 as well.

Can confirm that this is still broken on Fedora 29.

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