Bug 1643802
Summary: | GRUB fails to boot on EFI after upgrade from F27 to F29 | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Daniel Miranda <danielkza2> |
Component: | grub2 | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 29 | CC: | agander, fedora, lkundrak, marco.ce89, pjones, yves.lecuyer.linfedora |
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Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Last Closed: | 2019-11-27 21:24:28 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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Description
Daniel Miranda
2018-10-28 23:35:30 UTC
On my HP Elitebook 8740w I get the same behavior ! The secure boot on this PC is Not available, because UEFI monitor implementation is too week, so the EFI boot process pass by the fallback prog.: EFI/BOOT/fbx64.efi and On the grubmenu chooser, whatever Linux entry of my multiboot PC I choose, I get a grub error: - - - - - - - error ../../grub-core/kern/dl.c:431:symbol 'grub_efi_allocate_pages' not found. press any key to continue - - - - - - Only the chain entry toward windows is working ! So IT IS a severe bug ! I did not reproduce this boot so simply !! So now I need to pass first by navigation in EFI file system, and chose EFI/fedora/shimx64-fedora.efi to arrive on grub menu . Bug TURNAROUND ============== First : =====To get each time the grubmenu when you have an old buggy UEFI monitor, see explanation in bug :1512410 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1512410 comment 59. No more fedora 26 efi component needed Second : ==== Once arrived on grubmenu, and you get the problem signalled in this bug report by Daniel MIRANDA, the buggy part is: the programm EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi itself coming from package grub2-efi-x64-2.02-62.fc29.x86_64 SO Get the programm /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi from Fedora 28 package grub2-efi-x64-2.02-38.fc28.x86_64.rpm, and just put it in place of EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi provided by Fedora29 standard repos. Don't make a # dnf downgrade grub2-efi-x64-2.02-38.fc28.x86_64.rpm or the next time you'll made a global update the good programm will be erased by bad one, unless since then, grub2-efi-x64 for Fedora 29 has been corrected !!!! NOTE ====== TO DO IT: (once grub2-efi-x64-2.02-38.fc28.x86_64.rpm,has been downloaded from any fedora 28 repos) : # cd /root (or any other neutral place !) # rpm2cpio grub2-efi-x64-2.02-38.fc28.x86_64.rpm \ > grub2-efi-x64-2.02-38.fc28.x86_64.cpio # cpio -iumdv < grub2-efi-x64-2.02-38.fc28.x86_64.cpio And then you have it in ./boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi So keep warm your bad prog !!!!: # mv /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi.f29 and put the good one viewable in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/: Always from the directory where you extracted the cpio (/root in this example): # cp ./boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi.f28 And then: # cd /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/ # cp grubx64.efi.f28 grubx64.efi So that you will have always the good programm grubx64.efi.f28, quite in place if ever an update scratches grubx64.efi ! AND possibly if you had previously an endless booting loop, and you didn't care about secure EFI boot, because anyway, your UEFI monitor is unable to do so: # cp grubx64.efi.f28 /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI I experience the same issue since I upgraded from F28 to F29. I noticed that if a manually change the grub commands linuxefi -> linux, initrdefi -> initrd, I am able to boot. If I update manually grub.cfg with grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg where /etc/grub2-efi.cfg is a link to /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, working grub entries with linux and initrd (without -efi suffix) are generated for all installed kernels. I can verify that looking into /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg. If I reboot, everything works correctly. However, when a new kernel is installed by the package manager, an entry with linuxefi and initrdefi is added to /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, and that fails at the next boot, so there is still a bug. 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