Bug 1149122 - 64-bit and 32-bit GRUB EFI modules are split into packages for different architectures
Summary: 64-bit and 32-bit GRUB EFI modules are split into packages for different arch...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 20
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-10-03 09:32 UTC by Be
Modified: 2015-06-29 22:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-06-29 22:47:11 UTC
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Description Be 2014-10-03 09:32:03 UTC
Description of problem:
There are currently two packages, grub-efi-modules.i686 and grub-efi-modules.x86_64 that provide the GRUB EFI modules. Installing packages of the same name from different architectures is a pain to setup and maintain. The reason I want both of them is to install them both onto a live USB drive to make it bootable on the widest range of PCs possible. The easiest way to install both sets of EFI modules is to use rpm2cpio to extract the files from the RPM not corresponding to the architecture of the running system.

I see at least two possible fixes for this. The packages could be merged into a noarch package. Alternatively, Fedora could do what Debian and Ubuntu do and provide differently named packages, for example grub-efi-modules-ia32 and grub-efi-modules-amd64.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.00-26.fc20

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install grub2-efi-modules
2. Partition a USB drive such that the first partition is an EFI system partition (vfat) and the rest of the drive can be whatever. Mount the first partition on /mnt/efi and the second on /mnt/usb-main
3. grub2-install --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/mnt/usb-main /dev/USB-DEVICE
4. grub2-install --target=i386-efi --efi-directory=/mnt/efi --removable --boot-directory=/mnt/usb-main
5. grub2-install --target-x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/mnt/efi --removable --boot-directory=/mnt/usb-main

Actual results:
If running on an x86_64 system, the i386-efi modules are not found.

Expected results:
Both i386-efi and x86_64 modules are installed onto running system then USB drive.

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