Bug#808366: grub-efi-amd64 -- error: symbol 'grub_efi_find_last_device_path' not found

S. R. Wright srw6666 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 19 16:14:30 UTC 2015


On 12/19/2015 10:04 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sat, 2015-12-19 at 09:52 -0600, S. R. Wright wrote:
>> Ian:
>>
>> Attached is the info you suggested, pre- and post-upgrade.  Was never
>> prompted to answer any questions or than to continue the upgrade.
> I can't explain how it got there, but I think that this 
> Boot/bootx64.efi is what your system is booting from and it doesn't 
> appear to be being updated. I expect that the reason this is present 
> at all is that your BIOS is bug gy in the way the extra removable 
> option is intended to workaround, if it wasn't you could likely 
> convince your BIOS to boot thebconf-set-selections debian/grubx64.efi 
> by playing with efibootmgr etc but I think you best bet would be to 
> set grub2/force_efi_extra_removable=true, try (as root): echo 
> "grub-efi-amd64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean true" | de 
> bconf-set-selections and then upgrade or reconfigure the package and 
> it should be updated. Do you have any idea what might have happened at 
> 04:48 on Dec 12? Ian. 

Ian,  your suggestion appeared to have worked.  Ta!  As far as what 
happened @ 4.48a on the 12th,  I really cannot say as I was asleep.

Thanks again!
-- srw



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