Your message dated Sun, 15 May 2016 17:04:09 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#824389: grub-efi-arm-bin: the .efi file itself is
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Package: grub-efi-arm-bin
Version: 2.02~beta2-22
Severity: grave
Justification: breaks entire (binary) package
Hi,
Debian ships a package “grub-efi-arm-bin” that's supposed to contain an .efi
image (and “grub-efi-arm” that wraps in some /etc/kernel hooks), and U-Boot
is set up to search for it, but all it contains are the GRUB modules -- the
actual .efi file (/efi/boot/bootarm.elf on the bootable partition) is nowhere
to be seen.
As far as I can see, there are two reasons for this; one, there's code in
debian/rules that doesn't activate EFI image building (SB_PACKAGE etc.)
unless the build happens on Ubuntu, and two, it seems grub-efi-arm was simply
forgotten in the list, only grub-efi-amd64 and grub-efi-arm64 are remembered.
I tried looking through the changelogs, but I couldn't find any recent
changes here; I'm suspecting that this simply never worked? It's the exact
same thing in jessie, at least, so I'm putting the version number at -22 to
mark that this is not a regression (although I certainly see it on
2.02~beta2-36).
/* Steinar */
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On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:59:06PM +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> I can confirm that if I build the .efi manually, it does indeed work and
> boot a working GRUB (given an appropriate device tree already in /boot/dtbs):
OK, this is all my fault. I didn't realize it's not _supposed_ to come
pre-built; it's just done by grub-install just as on a PC:
grub-install --removable --target=arm-efi --boot-directory=/boot
--efi-directory=/boot
Sorry for the noise.
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