Bug 1624639 - grub2-efi-x64-2.02-52.fc29 fails to boot on Dell Latitude E6520
Summary: grub2-efi-x64-2.02-52.fc29 fails to boot on Dell Latitude E6520
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1624525
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2018-09-02 18:22 UTC by Hans de Goede
Modified: 2018-09-03 08:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-09-03 08:03:37 UTC
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Description Hans de Goede 2018-09-02 18:22:55 UTC 
After a fresh install of a recent F29 nightly on a Dell Latitude E6520 everything worked fine, until I did a dnf update and got grub2-efi-x64-2.02-52.fc29, after that I got the following errors on boot (and a non booting machine):

grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:217:cannot allocate kernel parameters.
grub-core/loader/i386/efi/linux.c:94:you need to load the kernel first.

This is a Sandy Bridge machine in UEFI mode.

Replacing /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi with the binary from grub2-efi-x64-2.02-51.fc29 fixes this.

I suspect that this is caused by this change (from the spec changelog):

- Better allocation of kernel+initramfs on x86_64 and aarch64 Resolves: rhbz#1572126 

I can build my own grub binaries for testing, so if you've a patch to test, or just a patch to get more debugging info, let me know and I will give it a test-spin.
Comment 1 Thorsten Leemhuis 2018-09-03 08:03:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1624525 ***
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