Bug#778617: grub-install often breaks in UEFI mode
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On 2/17/2015 5:51 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 09:32:56AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> Package: grub-installer Version: 1.110
>>
>> I'm forwarding this patch from Ubuntu:
>>
>> https://launchpad.net/bugs/1303790
>>
>> On EFI, the boot disk argument given to grub-install is a dummy
>> and is often the wrong disk or a non existent disk. Grub is
>> still installed to the correct place since it goes through the
>> filesystem to /boot/EFI, but the function make_active_partition
>> tries to look at the partition table on the dummy disk and throws
>> an error. Hence, I wrote the attached patch to disable the
>> function on EFI.
>
> Hi Phillip,
>
> The logic looks ok, I guess, but I'd check more explicitly for
> grub-efi-* instead of !grub-pc. There's several other
> architectures that may use grub, and I'm not sure if/how they may
> need special handling for active partitions...
Sounds good to me if you want to switch it when you apply the patch.
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