Bug#959712: Add probe module to signed UEFI images

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Alkis!

On Mon, May 04, 2020 at 03:21:25PM +0300, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote:
>Package: grub2
>Version: 2.04-7
>Severity: wishlist
>
>I would like to boot debian.iso directly from grub, e.g. from a live USB
>stick: https://github.com/alkisg/liveusb
>
>For Debian, this requires to pass the following cmdline to the kernel:
>fromiso=/dev/disk/by-uuid/$rootuuid/$iso boot=live
>
>In order to "translate" grub's $root (e.g. hd0,msdos1) into kernel's
>$rootuuid (e.g. 1234-5678), the probe command is needed:
>probe --set=rootuuid --fs-uuid "$root"
>
>It's a very small module, please consider including it to signed images
>similar to this patch for the regexp module:
>
>https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/commit/07481aa3deecc58247525d4e69f1f4f7ffbefe33

Ummm. Probe's already there in the signed UEFI image... See

  https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/blob/master/debian/build-efi-images#L127

Is it not working for you?

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