Bug 2303727

(In reply to Chris Adams from comment #0)
> I saw the update had landed in rawhide, so I tested it in one of my use
> cases: network booting. I tried from VMs configured for BIOS-TFTP,
> UEFI-TFTP, and UEFI-HTTP (UEFI with Secure Boot enabled and disabled). All
> fail.
> 
> With BIOS, it loads core.0 via TFTP, prints "Welcome to GRUB!" (in reverse
> video), and stops.
> 
> With UEFI (TFTP or HTTP, with shimx64.efi first), it loads grubx64.efi,
> prints "dynamic_load_symbols 0x7d97e000", although the number is different
> for different methods (guess it's an address?), and stops.
> 
> This is with files from grub2-2.12-3.fc41 and shim-x64-15.8-3. Changing back
> to the files from grub2-2.06-119.fc40 works.
> 
> Reproducible: Always

Hi Chris,

We are aware of these issues and currently working to solve them. I let you know any update.

Sounds good! I know this was a big change, let me know if there's anything I can do to help with testing (debugging GRUB code itself is probably beyond my ability unfortunately).

(In reply to Chris Adams from comment #2)
> Sounds good! I know this was a big change, let me know if there's anything I
> can do to help with testing (debugging GRUB code itself is probably beyond
> my ability unfortunately).

Indeed, a big change. So far we have this issue and two reported by bodhi https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-a067416d33

team,
latest fedora rawhide has been update with patch fixes [1], please re-test using [2]. Internally we have tested several netboot scenarios (pxe, http, ipv4, ipv6, with and without secure-boot, on all supported archs) and all passing fine. In case any issue, please report it.

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/pull-request/104#
[2] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=122703223

I tested BIOS, UEFI-PXE, and UEFI-HTTP (all over IPv4) successfully. Secure Boot failed with a security error (I guess this scratch build isn't signed with a key Fedora's shim recognizes).

Also hit this when doing a PXE installation of the Fedora 41 Beta on AArch64 (grub2-efi-aa64-2.12-4.fc41), updating to grub2-efi-aa64-2.12-6.fc42 worked as expected.

Leo, that build is a scratch build. There doesn't seem to have been an official build since 2.12-4 for F41 or Rawhide. Is there a plan to do official builds with the fix? Thanks.

Huh, it seems like there was a 2.12-6.fc42 build done - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2543243 - but somehow it was never submitted as an update, and is tagged only for garbage collection. Not sure how that happened. Was it built on a side tag?

(In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #8)
> Huh, it seems like there was a 2.12-6.fc42 build done -
> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2543243 - but somehow
> it was never submitted as an update, and is tagged only for garbage
> collection. Not sure how that happened. Was it built on a side tag?

The problem was that I did not have permissions to launch official build as seen here https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=123164869 but now I have access and just launched one, triggering the corresponding update https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-bb38ed83cb

ohhh, right, of course, somehow I did not link up that conversation in my head :D

(In reply to Leo Sandoval from comment #9)
> (In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #8)
> > Huh, it seems like there was a 2.12-6.fc42 build done -
> > https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2543243 - but somehow
> > it was never submitted as an update, and is tagged only for garbage
> > collection. Not sure how that happened. Was it built on a side tag?
> 
> The problem was that I did not have permissions to launch official build as
> seen here https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=123164869 but
> now I have access and just launched one, triggering the corresponding update
> https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-bb38ed83cb

Adam, my bad, last update went for ELN but not f41 because the latter failed https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=123550898 . We (well, nfrayer) are planning to merge soon another patch on rawhide which would bump the spec version, following by an official build.

FEDORA-2024-2e76a9ff56 (grub2-2.12-9.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-2e76a9ff56

Since there's only five days to Final freeze, proposing this as an FE in case it doesn't make it to stable by then. Fixing netboot issues is obviously a good thing to have in release if possible.

FEDORA-2024-2e76a9ff56 has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2024-2e76a9ff56`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-2e76a9ff56

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

FEDORA-2024-2e76a9ff56 (grub2-2.12-9.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.