Re: migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Sonntag, dem 26.05.2024 um 16:08 +0200 schrieb Harald Dunkel:
> On 2024-05-24 20:36:41, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It is a known bug. 
> 
> This is a highly destructive bug. You have UEFI boot finally working,
> you just do some cleanup, and on the next reboot of your server 8
> weeks later it doesn't boot anymore. :-(
> 
> AFAICT the problem is the config file isn't properly managed by *any*
> package:
> 
> 	# dpkg -S /etc/default/grub
> 	dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/default/grub
> 
> Doesn't this violate some Debian policy manual? I remember something
> about not unconditionally overwriting config files.
> 

It's managed by ucf:

$ ucfq /etc/default/grub
Configuration file                            Package             Exists Changed
/etc/default/grub                             grub-efi-amd64      Yes    Yes


But yes, this should probable be moved to grub2-common