Hello, Just letting you know that the 2.12 merge is in progress, and GRUB 2.12 (non-rc1) will be available in Debian the (hopefully) not too distant future.
Mate On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 9:18 PM <deb...@mifritscher.de> wrote: > > Good day, > > does grub 2.12 (without rc1) help? There are a good pile of fixups > between rc1 and release. E.g. > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?h=grub-2.12&id=1f5b180742ff2706bc3a696d115ddbc677ec75b9 > or > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?h=grub-2.12&id=67ae3981dc5113e5af3a0539174bcd7eab8f7722 > could help. > > Additionally, the ZFS fixes are needed to boot from volumes touched by > ZFS 2.2 ( https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13873 ), so migrating to > 2.12 is helpful in either case. > > Best regards, > Michael Fritscher > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 17:36:41 -0500 Nicolas Haller > <nico...@boiteameuh.org> wrote: > > Package: grub-efi-amd64 > > Version: 2.06-13 > > Severity: critical > > Justification: breaks the whole system > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > My old laptop (Lenovo 11e) runs Sid and all was right before I updated > > it the other day (I don't do that very often). After that upgrade, GRUB > > wasn't able to load any kernel with the pretty much generic error > > "Error: can't load image". The version of GRUB was 2.12~rc1-12. > > If I try to boot again, GRUB tells me that I need to load the image > > first (I guess it somehow ignores the linux command and sends that when > > trying to load the initrd). > > > > I tried to reinstall grub, grub-install /dev/sda, update-grub, reinstall > > the kernel, update-initramfs from the rescue mode but nothing worked. > > The "file" command was able to read the vmlinuz file and none seemed > > truncated. The system has one partition with both / and /boot and isn't > > running out of space. > > I did not see any error message during those operation besides GRUB > > saying it wasn't able to update EFI parameters. > > > > I don't know if there is a way to get more logs or error message during > > the boot explaining why it wasn't able to load the image. > > > > I tried to get the last version of GRUB from Bookworm, that is > > 2.06-13, and now I'm able to boot. The kernel version did not change, > > the only change I did is to downgrade GRUB (and dependencies apt was > > asking for). > > > > I'm not sure which GRUB package I should use for reporting so I took the > > one that seems the most specific to my system. Apologies if it is not > > correct. > > > > Let me know if you need more info. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > Nicolas Haller > > > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate > > *** > > > > * What led up to the situation? > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > > ineffective)? > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > > > *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** > > > > > > -- Package-specific info: > > > > *********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts > > /dev/sda2 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > > /dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat > > rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro > > 0 0 > > *********************** END /proc/mounts > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-grub-devel mailing list > pkg-grub-de...@alioth-lists.debian.net > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grub-devel
