Bug#1056764: grub-efi-amd64: can't boot with GRUB 2.12~rc1-12

[Nicolas Haller]

Hello Mate,

Thanks for letting us know. I just tried with 2.12~rc1-13 and no luck.
I'll wait for 2.12 and let you know if it fixes my issue.

Thanks,

-- 
Nicolas Haller

On Mon, 15 Jan 2024 07:51:22 +0000 Mate Kukri <mate.kukri at canonical.com> 
wrote:
> 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 <debian at 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
> > <nicolas at 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