Bug#932966: GRUB2 EFI has incompatibility with Devuan

[Steve McIntyre]

Hi Ivan,

Apologies for not seeing this bug earlier - I should have responded
way back when you first opened it, sorry... :-/

On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:01:54AM +0200, Ivan J. wrote:
>Package: grub-common
>Version: 2.02+dfsg1-20
>Source: grub2
>
>When in Devuan grub is updated to the buster version, there is an EFI
>signing issue with --bootloader-id, because 'devuan' is not recognized.
>This renders an error in GRUB when booting and requires manual
>interference to boot the system by loading the kernel and initramfs.
>
>The issue is much the same like KUbuntu, which already has a patch, and
>supporting Devuan should be done in the same way.

Ummmm. Kubuntu is very much maintained as a tiny variation from
Ubuntu, using the same kernel, grub, shim, etc. AFAIK Devuan is *not*
doing the same style of variation from Debian? In that case, Devuan
should absolutely *not* be installing things in the ESP under
/EFI/debian but should switch everything to /EFI/devuan instead. That
would also have the advantage for users that dual-booting between
Debian and Devuan would work, with different boot entries etc.

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