Grub2 updates for Red Hat systems are making some unbootable
Grub2 updates for Red Hat systems are making some unbootable
Posted Jul 30, 2020 21:54 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838)In reply to: Grub2 updates for Red Hat systems are making some unbootable by cesarb
Parent article: Grub2 updates for Red Hat systems are making some unbootable
The Ubuntu issue seems to be an already broken setup that is not properly detected, and thus grub-install fails. You end up with the old grub in EFI, and the new grub modules in /boot. If the two don't like each other, the system fails to boot.
Debian had a regression related to dual-booting Microsoft Windows. It has already been fixed, the regression-fixing packages are ready, and the Debian security team tells me the regression-fixing update is already going through the EFI-signature-and-final-upload pipeline (no idea how long that takes, though).
Hopefully all distros will converge on the regression-fixes very fast...
I am not rebooting my EFI systems for a few days if I can help it, though :-P
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