[Pkg-xen-devel] multiboot.mod and module.mod missing in grub-efi-arm64

[Thomas Kittel]

Hallo,

I am currently installing XEN on an ARM64 EFI machine. (Debian
Testing),  Therefore, I installed the following packages:

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root at armbox:/etc# dpkg -l "xen*" | awk '/^ii/ {print $2 "\t\t" $3}'
xen-hypervisor-4.6-arm64        4.6.0-1+nmu2
xenstore-utils                  4.6.0-1+nmu2
root at armbox:/etc# dpkg -l "grub*" | awk '/^ii/ {print $2 "\t\t" $3}'
grub-common                     2.02~beta2-36
grub-efi-arm64                  2.02~beta2-36
grub-efi-arm64-bin              2.02~beta2-36
grub2-common                    2.02~beta2-36
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Grub generates the following boot entry: (based on/etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen)
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multiboot       /boot/xen-4.6-arm64 placeholder   ${xen_rm_opts}
echo    'Linux 4.5.0-1-arm64 wird geladen …'
module  /boot/vmlinuz-4.5.0-1-arm64 placeholder
root=UUID=978551a9-c49d-4c48-a5a7-2648b1d757f9 ro
echo    'Initiale Ramdisk wird geladen …'
module  --nounzip   /boot/initrd.img-4.5.0-1-arm64
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This leads to a grub error message stating that the commands mulitboot
and module can not be found. These files are unfortunately only
available for x86 and x86_64.[0]

Thus please insert the corresponding files (multiboot.mod) into the
grub-efi-arm64 package or change the way xen is configured in grub so
that it is able to load.

Kind Regards,
Thomas Kittel

[0]
*https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=contents&keywords=multiboot.mod*

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