Bug#756253: Upgrade from 2.02~beta2-10 to 2.02~beta2-11 left grub unbootable

[Steve McIntyre]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 06:55:05AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:44:37PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> 
>> The automatic setup of grub-install calling efibootmgr won't be
>> touching the "grub" entry at all - it's set up to only play with
>> "debian" entries. So that should be safe.
>
>Was it always a "debian" entry?

As far back as I remember, yes.

>> >But then comes the second thing: when I reboot, the "debian" entry is
>> >lost. Poof, disappeared. And I do wonder if the initial problem is not
>> >related to that.
>> 
>> That is still happening? Can you successfully re-create it each time?
>
>It happens reliably. efibootmgr displays it, but after a reboot, it's
>gone.

OK, now that's just *weird* and suggests a firmware bug to me. I'd be
tempted to try and create an exact copy with another name and see how
that works, but I'm struggling to understand what's going on here now!

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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