Bug 870317

Summary: grub2-efi: it failed to switch into *EDIT* mode on uefi machine
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Zhouping Liu <zliu>
Component: grub2Assignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 18CC: bcl, dcantrell, dennis, lxiang, mads, me, nobody+295318, pjones
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2012-10-26 14:03:59 UTC Type: Bug
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/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg none

Description Zhouping Liu 2012-10-26 07:16:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
when booting process step on grub2 screen, the grub can allow us to choose which kernel you use, and edit the kernel boot parameters if need.
but it failed when I enter 'e' character to try to change some info.
the screen does not contain any words, and it can't return back to the grub menu screen using enter 'Esc' button. the system didn't have any response, what I only can do is to enter 'Ctrl+Alt+Delete' to reboot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep grub
grub2-tools-2.00-9.fc18.x86_64
grub2-efi-2.00-9.fc18.x86_64
grubby-8.20-1.fc18.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get a uefi machine
2. install fedora18 with Desktop
3. change the kernel parameter during booting in grub menu
  
Actual results:
can't switch into grub EDIT mode

Expected results:
no such above issue
Comment 1 Mads Kiilerich 2012-10-26 14:03:59 UTC 
Please report exactly which image you are installing - especially when f18 haven't been installed yet.

The issue should be solved in recent updates. Please update and reopen if you see the same on a fully updated system.
Comment 2 Zhouping Liu 2012-10-29 07:56:27 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Please report exactly which image you are installing - especially when f18
> haven't been installed yet.

I don't understand the 'image' what you said here, but I think the issues still exist after I invoke 'yum update', and I installed Fedora 18 using the latest distro, not updated from Fedora17.

I will attach /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg file, let me know if you need other info, also correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Zhouping
Comment 3 Zhouping Liu 2012-10-29 07:57:31 UTC 
Created attachment 634905 [details]
/boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Comment 4 Mads Kiilerich 2012-10-29 09:48:39 UTC 
It is not clear to me how the system was installed, but you do apparently not have the latest f18 updates.
Comment 5 Lingzhu Xiang 2012-12-07 06:37:52 UTC 
I had close look to Zhouping's machine. I believe this is the same issue as bug 859632.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 859632 ***