Bug#1074081: grub-efi-amd64: After installing Debian 12.5 on an UEFI system Debian wont boot

T.Schweikle tschweikle at gmail.com
Sun Jun 23 00:55:28 BST 2024


Package: grub-efi-amd64
Version: 2.12-2
Severity: important
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: tschweikle at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Installing Debian 12.5 from Debian live media available from
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian-cd/12.5.0-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-
live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Installed Debian 12.5 as given above to an UEFI booting system.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Debian 12.5 installed, but not able to boot. Had to boot an other CD starting
GRUB, then load grub from the Debian installed partition, advice Grub to take
the given grub.cfg on same partition.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Installing Debian 12.5, then rebooting, Debian booting without hassles.


PS:
- Booting from the Debian installer disk is imnpossible:
  -- Text-Mode: white screen, cursor upper left corner.
     System shows no further actions.
  -- Graphics mode: x-server terminates with errors: can't find a frame buffer

- Booting in Rescue mode is impossible to. Same problems as above.

It is possible to reproduce these Problems/Errors by booting with
- VirtualBox (all versions capable of booting in UEFI mode)
- VMware (all versions capable of booting in UEFI mode)
- on Hardware capable to boot in UEFI mode

After installing the new installer creates three partitions with gpt-
partitiontables:
- 1. EFI-Partition with type EF02 formated with fat32 (maybe this is wrong and
should be EF00?)
- 2. an ext4 partition for root ("/")
- 3. swap sized to hold complete ram the system has


Within this EFI-Partition all necessary binaries are installed into directory
"Debian". A second directory "boot" is empty.


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/nvme0n1p4 / ext4 rw,noatime,discard 0 0
/dev/nvme0n1p3 /boot/efi vfat rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  set have_grubenv=true
  load_env
fi
if [ "${next_entry}" ] ; then
   set default="${next_entry}"
   set next_entry=
   save_env next_entry
   set boot_once=true
else
   set default="0"
fi

if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
  menuentry_id_option=""
fi

export menuentry_id_option

if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
  set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
  if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
    saved_entry="${chosen}"
    save_env saved_entry
  fi
}
function load_video {
  if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
    insmod all_video
  else
    insmod efi_gop
    insmod efi_uga
    insmod ieee1275_fb
    insmod vbe
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
  fi
}

if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
   font=unicode
else
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707
    font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi

if loadfont $font ; then
  set gfxmode=auto
  load_video
  insmod gfxterm
  set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
  set lang=de_DE
  insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
if [ "${recordfail}" = 1 ] ; then
  set timeout=30
else
  if [ x$feature_timeout_style = xy ] ; then
    set timeout_style=menu
    set timeout=5
  # Fallback normal timeout code in case the timeout_style feature is
  # unavailable.
  else
    set timeout=5
  fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
insmod part_gpt
insmod ext2
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707
insmod png
if background_image /usr/share/desktop-base/emerald-theme/grub/grub-16x9.png; then
  set color_normal=white/black
  set color_highlight=black/white
else
  set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
  set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
function gfxmode {
	set gfxpayload="${1}"
}
set linux_gfx_mode=
export linux_gfx_mode
menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707' {
	load_video
	insmod gzio
	if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
	insmod part_gpt
	insmod ext2
	search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707
	echo	'Loading Linux 6.8.12-amd64 ...'
	linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.12-amd64 root=UUID=cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707 ro  quiet splash resume=UUID=a9008ad1-6f65-4386-937d-01b4355ccc0a
	echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
	initrd	/boot/initrd.img-6.8.12-amd64
}
submenu 'Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707' {
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.8.12-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-6.8.12-amd64-advanced-cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_gpt
		insmod ext2
		search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707
		echo	'Loading Linux 6.8.12-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.12-amd64 root=UUID=cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707 ro  quiet splash resume=UUID=a9008ad1-6f65-4386-937d-01b4355ccc0a
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-6.8.12-amd64
	}
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.8.12-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-6.8.12-amd64-recovery-cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_gpt
		insmod ext2
		search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707
		echo	'Loading Linux 6.8.12-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.8.12-amd64 root=UUID=cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707 ro single single dis_ucode_ldr 
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-6.8.12-amd64
	}
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-6.1.0-18-amd64-advanced-cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_gpt
		insmod ext2
		search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707
		echo	'Loading Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-18-amd64 root=UUID=cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707 ro  quiet splash resume=UUID=a9008ad1-6f65-4386-937d-01b4355ccc0a
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-18-amd64
	}
	menuentry 'Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (recovery mode)' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-6.1.0-18-amd64-recovery-cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707' {
		load_video
		insmod gzio
		if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
		insmod part_gpt
		insmod ext2
		search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707
		echo	'Loading Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 ...'
		linux	/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-18-amd64 root=UUID=cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707 ro single single dis_ucode_ldr 
		echo	'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
		initrd	/boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-18-amd64
	}
}

### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/25_bli ###
if [ "$grub_platform" = "efi" ]; then
  insmod bli
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/25_bli ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
if [ "$grub_platform" = "efi" ]; then
	fwsetup --is-supported
	if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
		menuentry 'UEFI Firmware Settings' $menuentry_id_option 'uefi-firmware' {
			fwsetup
		}
	fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f  ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
  source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f  $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
  source $prefix/custom.cfg
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
unused devices: <none>
*********************** END /proc/mdstat

*********************** BEGIN LVM
*********************** END LVM

*********************** BEGIN /dev/disk/by-id
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jun 23 00:22 ata-VBOX_CD-ROM_VB1-1a2b3c4d -> ../../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789 -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789-part4 -> ../../nvme0n1p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789-part5 -> ../../nvme0n1p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789_1 -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789_1-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789_1-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789_1-part4 -> ../../nvme0n1p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-ORCL-VBOX-NVME-VER12_VB1234-56789_1-part5 -> ../../nvme0n1p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-eui.ed676a258fa74c4b9367c8ce5854ba78 -> ../../nvme0n1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-eui.ed676a258fa74c4b9367c8ce5854ba78-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-eui.ed676a258fa74c4b9367c8ce5854ba78-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-eui.ed676a258fa74c4b9367c8ce5854ba78-part4 -> ../../nvme0n1p4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 nvme-eui.ed676a258fa74c4b9367c8ce5854ba78-part5 -> ../../nvme0n1p5
*********************** END /dev/disk/by-id

*********************** BEGIN /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  9 Jun 23 00:22 2024-06-20-21-44-00-00 -> ../../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 C7D6-40C5 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 a9008ad1-6f65-4386-937d-01b4355ccc0a -> ../../nvme0n1p5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 23 00:22 cd07d628-9ada-4bdf-aa67-07e7e6f8c707 -> ../../nvme0n1p4
*********************** END /dev/disk/by-uuid

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages grub-efi-amd64 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.86
ii  grub-efi-amd64-bin     2.12-2
ii  grub2-common           2.12-2
ii  ucf                    3.0043+nmu1

grub-efi-amd64 recommends no packages.

grub-efi-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  grub2/linux_cmdline_default: quiet splash resume=UUID=a9008ad1-6f65-4386-937d-01b4355ccc0a
  grub2/linux_cmdline:
  grub2/enable_os_prober: true
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline_default: quiet
  grub2/kfreebsd_cmdline:
  grub2/update_nvram: true
  grub2/force_efi_extra_removable: false



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