Re: Broken EFI grub.cfg on stretch images
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:09:41PM -0430, Emilio Lazo Zaia wrote:
>On 23/11/15 11:16, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:50:02AM -0430, Emilio Lazo Zaia wrote:
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>Debian-installer testing gives GRUB prompt while booting on UEFI platforms;
>>>the issue is related to a broken /boot/grub/grub.cfg file. The screen shows
>>>only Debian's background and the loaded font but no menu options are shown.
>>>
>>>Up to the date (Nov 23), all three (official, weekly and daily) images are
>>>broken. Its grub.cfg file is only 449 bytes and the last line is "set
>>>theme="; there are no "menuentry" directives, so after loading theme it comes
>>>with the prompt.
>>Hmmm. Can you give me a URL to exactly which images you're looking at
>>please? I've just looked at a daily sid amd64 netinst iso and it looks
>>sane enough to me from the files in its build tree. This suggests
>>we're looking at different images, maybe...
>I'm sorry; I forgot to mention some details: multi-arch netinst ISO images
>are the failing ones. For example:
Ah, ok. Yes, I see that now. Thanks for clarifying!
>Official CD and DVD multi-arch [1], [2] aren't good... amd64 and i386 looks
>fine. Weekly multi-arch DVD and CD [3] and [4] are broken. Daily CD
>multi-arch is also broken [5].
>
>grub.cfg file seems to be truncated at 449 bytes.
I'm looking now to see what's broken there, thanks for reporting.
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