http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9109 <pre>Follow-up Comment #5, bug #31647 (project grub): There's a use case for this that makes me want it too: backup. If I periodically clone my HDD to an external one, I'd like to be able to swap them when the internal one fails, like described here: &lt;http://www.jwz.org/blog/2007/09/psa-backups/&gt;. However, with UUIDs in the bootloader I can't do this. With labels I would be able to. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31647&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Iain Dalton 2012-05-24T01:07:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9108 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36532&gt; Summary: boot in EFI mode (x86_64) fails on some systems Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: stuart_hayes Submitted on: Wed 23 May 2012 07:33:10 PM GMT Category: Booting Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Software Error Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: stuart_hayes Originator Email: stuart_hayes&lt; at &gt;dell.com Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: other Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Grub v 1.99 is failing to boot on certain systems in EFI mode. This was discovered on some Dell 12G server systems (the PowerEdge R720, for example), using Ubuntu 12.04, but the issue was reproduced with vanilla grub 1.99. Some systems will boot under certain circumstances (I have one R720 that will boot if I hit "F11" to go into a UEFI boot menu and then boot, but not if the system tries to boot with no manual intervention), other systems will not boot at all. The problem is that grub2 is failing to get the EFI memory map in grub-core/loader/i386/linux.c, when it calls grub_efi_finish_boot_services(), because the buffer it allocated for the EFI memory map earlier in allocate_pages() (in the same file) is not big enough. (The EFI memory map has grown considerably--like 50000 bytes or so--between the time that the efi_mmap_buf was set up in allocate_pages() and the time it is used in grub_efi_finish_boot_services()). When allocate_pages() runs, it really has no way to know how large the EFI memory map will be when it needs that buffer. Also, the EFI memory map does not need to be at an address under 1MB, either. I've made a patch that modifies allocate_pages() so that it no longer allocates a buffer for the EFI memory map. Instead, the buffer is allocated right before the call to grub_efi_finish_boot_services() in grub-linux_boot(), and it tries to put it at the top of memory (or just below the initrd, if one is loaded). I have verified that this fixes the issue on my systems. I'm attaching the patch. _______________________________________________________ File Attachments: ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 23 May 2012 07:33:10 PM GMT Name: grub-1.99-upstream_efimm_late_malloc_3.patch Size: 6kB By: stuart_hayes patch to allocate EFI mmap buffer later &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=25912&gt; _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36532&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> stuart hayes 2012-05-23T19:33:11 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9107 <pre>Update of bug #36525 (project grub): Status: None =&gt; Invalid Open/Closed: Open =&gt; Closed _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #1: We don't handle apt actions here. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36525&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-22T17:02:12 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9106 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36525&gt; Summary: Update overwrites /etc/default/grub Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: chiel92 Submitted on: Tue 22 May 2012 04:24:41 PM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: other Reproducibility: Once Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Normal priority. Today I ran an apt-get update on Ubuntu 12.04 and I noticed the file /etc/default/grub was overwritten, so I lost all my tweaks. This update involved a kernel update, which probably caused this problem. I noticed that there are other people experiencing the same problem. The grub version I use is: grub-install (GRUB) 1.99-21ubuntu3 Sorry, I don't know which value in the release field corresponds to this version. The OS I use is: Ubuntu 12.04 precise pangolin _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36525&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Chiel 2012-05-22T16:24:42 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9105 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36522&gt; Summary: wrong fonts for starfield theme - bold is missing Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: kiilerix Submitted on: Tue 22 May 2012 13:17:43 GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: None Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: I can't repopen https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?36446 so I file this instead: Multiple font files will now be installed - http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4343/Makefile.am#L72 . It will however only install non-bold fonts. The theme also uses some bold fonts - http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4343/themes/starfield/theme.txt#L51 . _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36522&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Mads Kiilerich 2012-05-22T13:17:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9104 <pre>Update of bug #36340 (project grub): Status: None =&gt; Fixed Open/Closed: Open =&gt; Closed _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36340&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-22T07:29:36 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9103 <pre>Update of bug #36489 (project grub): Status: None =&gt; Fixed Open/Closed: Open =&gt; Closed _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36489&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-21T22:02:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9102 <pre>Update of bug #36509 (project grub): Status: None =&gt; Wont Fix Open/Closed: Open =&gt; Closed _______________________________________________________ Follow-up Comment #1: We never change past commits. We're not in 1984. If your export can't handle these commits then it's buggy. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36509&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-21T11:04:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9101 <pre>URL: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36509&gt; Summary: Repository Contains Malformed Commits Project: GNU GRUB Submitted by: kphillis Submitted on: Sun 20 May 2012 09:52:29 PM GMT Category: None Severity: Major Priority: 5 - Normal Item Group: Action Request Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: Release: Bazaar - trunk Reproducibility: Every Time Planned Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: When attempting to perform a fast export of the grub bazaar tree to a git repository, I found a few errors within the source repository. These errors are commits that have been tagged with an empty Author. The exact commits are Revision 3144 that was commited on March 30th, 2011, and Revision 2266 that was posted on March 24th, 2010. These can be confirmed by doing a quick grep of the bazaar log using the following command: bzr log | grep author\:\ $ -a4 as for the Fix, Change the log entry to remove the empty author field, and then the bazaar repository can easily be exported to other repository software. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36509&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Kenney Phillis 2012-05-20T21:52:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9100 <pre>Follow-up Comment #11, bug #36490 (project grub): My bad, I forgot to decompress it. Now it works: phcoder&lt; at &gt;debian.x201.phnet:09:13:42:~/compile$ ./grub-fstest ~/downloads/data.img ls -- -l Device loop0: Filesystem type fat, UUID FE14-89C1 - Total size 410157 sectors Device host: Filesystem type hostfs - Total size 0 sectors phcoder&lt; at &gt;debian.x201.phnet:09:13:50:~/compile$ ./grub-fstest ~/downloads/data.img ls -- -l / phcoder&lt; at &gt;debian.x201.phnet:09:13:56:~/compile$ sudo mount ~/downloads/data.img /mnt/1/ phcoder&lt; at &gt;debian.x201.phnet:09:14:25:~/compile$ sudo grub-probe -t fs /mnt/1/ fat Does it work with beta4? And beta5? Could you try bisecting? _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-19T07:16:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9099 <pre>Follow-up Comment #10, bug #36490 (project grub): I can confirm that I could reproduce the problem, I'll look into it one of these days. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-19T07:09:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9098 <pre>Follow-up Comment #9, bug #36490 (project grub): (That's xz compressed.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Benjamin Peterson 2012-05-18T22:55:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9097 <pre>Follow-up Comment #8, bug #36490 (project grub): The whole thing (I think) is here: pantheon.yale.edu/~bcp4/data.part _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Benjamin Peterson 2012-05-18T22:49:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9096 <pre>Follow-up Comment #7, bug #36490 (project grub): This bts is limited to 512K. My mailbox is limited at 10M per mail but splitting is ok. I can't offer an FTP server now since I have only NAT'ed connection. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-18T17:49:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9095 <pre>Follow-up Comment #6, bug #36490 (project grub): I mean, would it be possible for you to do something like this: dd if=/dev/sdXY bs=1M | xz &gt; esp.xz and send me esp.xz. Unfortunately the 32K weren't enough to reproduce the bug. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-18T17:41:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9094 <pre>Follow-up Comment #5, bug #36490 (project grub): I should also note beta3 works correctly. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Benjamin Peterson 2012-05-18T16:45:16 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9093 <pre>Follow-up Comment #4, bug #36490 (project grub): I can try shrinking the partition. If it makes a difference, this is supposed to be the EFI system partition. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Benjamin Peterson 2012-05-18T16:33:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9092 <pre>Follow-up Comment #3, bug #36490 (project grub): I might have seen the same on a Mac ESP but didn't follow up on it while I had access to the machine. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Mads Kiilerich 2012-05-18T15:47:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9091 <pre>Follow-up Comment #1, bug #36446 (project grub): Multiple font files will now be installed - http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4343/Makefile.am#L72 . It will however only install non-bold fonts. The theme also uses some bold fonts - http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/annotate/4343/themes/starfield/theme.txt#L51 . _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36446&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Mads Kiilerich 2012-05-18T15:45:14 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9090 <pre>Follow-up Comment #2, bug #36490 (project grub): Hm, GRUB accepts this superblock just fine. How big is the partition in question? Can it be compressed to a reasonable size? _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Vladimir Serbinenko 2012-05-18T07:55:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs/9089 <pre>Additional Item Attachment, bug #36490 (project grub): File name: part.data Size:32 KB _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: &lt;http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36490&gt; _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ </pre> Benjamin Peterson 2012-05-18T05:43:37 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs