Re: address@hidden: Bug#858832: calls efibootmgr with invalid options]

[Andrei Borzenkov]

Link to the bug report would be helpful. I assume it contains actual
invocation with arguments, I do not see them in this mail.

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Colin Watson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I guess that the attached bug happens because grub_install_register_efi
> is called on non-biosdisk-ish systems but uses
> grub_util_biosdisk_get_osdev to get an OS device name for
> efidir_grub_dev->disk, which isn't going to work so well.  I'm a bit
> rusty here - would anyone care to venture a guess at suitable
> replacement code that would work on devices other than biosdisk?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Colin Watson                                       address@hidden
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> From: Peter Palfrader <address@hidden>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
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> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:24:16 +0000
> Subject: Bug#858832: calls efibootmgr with invalid options
> Package: grub-efi-arm64
> Version: 2.02~beta3-5
> Severity: serious
> User: address@hidden
> Usertags: needed-by-DSA-Team
>
> On upgrading from jessie to stretch on our arm64 box acker.debian.org I
> noticed this issue with grub-efi-arm64:
>
>
> acker:~# apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-arm64
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 73.0 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://mirror.netcologne.de/debian stretch/main arm64 grub-efi-arm64 
> arm64 2.02~beta3-5 [73.0 kB]
> Fetched 73.0 kB in 0s (603 kB/s)
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 62883 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi-arm64_2.02~beta3-5_arm64.deb ...
> Unpacking grub-efi-arm64 (2.02~beta3-5) over (2.02~beta3-5) ...
> Setting up grub-efi-arm64 (2.02~beta3-5) ...
> Installing for arm64-efi platform.
> efibootmgr: option requires an argument -- 'd'
> efibootmgr version 14
> usage: efibootmgr [options]
>         -a | --active         sets bootnum active
>         -A | --inactive       sets bootnum inactive
>         -b | --bootnum XXXX   modify BootXXXX (hex)
>         -B | --delete-bootnum delete bootnum
>         -c | --create         create new variable bootnum and add to bootorder
>         -C | --create-only      create new variable bootnum and do not add to 
> bootorder
>         -D | --remove-dups      remove duplicate values from BootOrder
>         -d | --disk disk       (defaults to /dev/sda) containing loader
>         -r | --driver         Operate on Driver variables, not Boot Variables.
>         -e | --edd [1|3|-1]   force EDD 1.0 or 3.0 creation variables, or 
> guess
>         -E | --device num      EDD 1.0 device number (defaults to 0x80)
>         -g | --gpt            force disk with invalid PMBR to be treated as 
> GPT
>         -i | --iface name     create a netboot entry for the named interface
>         -l | --loader name     (defaults to \EFI\redhat\grub.efi)
>         -L | --label label     Boot manager display label (defaults to 
> "Linux")
>         -m | --mirror-below-4G t|f mirror memory below 4GB
>         -M | --mirror-above-4G X percentage memory to mirror above 4GB
>         -n | --bootnext XXXX   set BootNext to XXXX (hex)
>         -N | --delete-bootnext delete BootNext
>         -o | --bootorder XXXX,YYYY,ZZZZ,...     explicitly set BootOrder (hex)
>         -O | --delete-bootorder delete BootOrder
>         -p | --part part        (defaults to 1) containing loader
>         -q | --quiet            be quiet
>         -t | --timeout seconds  set boot manager timeout waiting for user 
> input.
>         -T | --delete-timeout   delete Timeout.
>         -u | --unicode | --UCS-2  pass extra args as UCS-2 (default is ASCII)
>         -v | --verbose          print additional information
>         -V | --version          return version and exit
>         -w | --write-signature  write unique sig to MBR if needed
>         -y | --sysprep          Operate on SysPrep variables, not Boot 
> Variables.
>         -@ | --append-binary-args file  append extra args from file (use "-" 
> for stdin)
>         -h | --help             show help/usage
> grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Operation 
> not permitted.
> Failed: grub-install --target=arm64-efi
> WARNING: Bootloader is not properly installed, system may not be bootable
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-2-arm64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-2-arm64
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-0.bpo.2-arm64
> Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
> done
> acker:~#
>
> Cheers,
> --
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