[Buildroot] grub on target

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

 Hi Mark,

On 04/24/15 19:41, Mark Mason wrote:
> To answer my own question, it looks like I was having some sort of
> UEFI-related problem, and it was fixed by a newer version of Grub2.

 Perhaps you'd like to submit a patch to bump grub2 to a newer version?

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
> When booting from Grub2 under some circumstances (seemingly involving
> the phase of the moon and how frustrated I was) I'd get a message
> saying "Couldn't terminate EFI service", then some sort of hang.  Some
> digging around turned up a Grub2 patch to address this issue that
> buildroot-2015-02 doesn't have - Grub2 simply retries the service stop
> if it fails the first time, emitting a message about retrying the
> service stop instead of a message about being unable to stop.
> 
> I have no idea what service(s) are involved, but I've now got reliable
> booting.
> 
> It's worth nothing that the Grub2 info page does address
> phase-of-the-moon issues, but only involving the graphics.
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