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From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grub-install deleting long UEFI entries bug ?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 07:36:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4dc97c5-f2a4-b7b6-2a04-db06434a28f0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58FBFB47.80603@gmail.com>

23.04.2017 03:54, adrian15 пишет:
> grub-install seems to be deleting long UEFI entries
> 
> (*) What the bug is
> 
> * Add an UEFI entry with this label (Remove the single quotes):
>  '(Rescapp added) \EFI\ubuntu\MokManager.efi'
> 
> Example:
> 
> efibootmgr -c \
>  -d /dev/sda \
>  -p 2 \
>  -L '(Rescapp added) \EFI\ubuntu\MokManager.efi' \
>  -l '\EFI\ubuntu\MokManager.efi'
> 
> * Run grub-install /dev/sda or maybe just grub-install
> 
> I expect the newly added uefi entry to be there.
> What I find is that the entry has been lost or deleted!
> 

What is value of GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR in /etc/default/grub?
...
> 
> Maybe grub-install uses efibootmgr as an auxiliar tool and the problem
> is in Ubuntu's efibootmgr?
> 

Yes.

> It would be nice if someone could point us on where does grub-install
> handles the uefi boot entries so that we can take a deeper look into it.
> 

grub-core/osdep/unix/platform.c


  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-23  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-23  0:54 grub-install deleting long UEFI entries bug ? adrian15
2017-04-23  4:36 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2017-04-23  8:21   ` adrian15 adrian15
2017-04-23  8:45     ` Andrei Borzenkov
2017-04-23 20:33       ` adrian15
2017-04-24  3:33         ` Andrei Borzenkov

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