Devuan bug report logs - #535
No grub menu on uefi install

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#535: No grub menu on uefi install

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From: Ralph Ronnquist <ralph.ronnquist@gmail.com>

To: 535-done@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: Re: No grub menu on uefi install

Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:18:17 +1100

The move of grub.cfg is installed via a magic-touch patch that
register a finish-install.d script to perform the move at the very end
of the installation.

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From: fsmithred <fsmithred@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.devuan.org

Subject: No grub menu on uefi install

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 07:08:13 -0500

Package: devuan-installer

Build#171 netinstall-amd64.iso

UEFI netinstall boots to grub prompt. It's possible to manually boot from
there.

Running grub-install and update-grub both complete without error, grub.cfg
is created, bootloader in /boot/efi/EFI/devuan is created, system still
boots to grub prompt.

This bug is a result of the fix for bug#411 and bug#452
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=411
https://bugs.devuan.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=452

grub-efi signed needs the bootloader to be in /boot/efi/EFI/debian/
Setting ID=devuan in /etc/os-release breaks this - grub can't find the
boot menu.
Switching to the unsigned grub would exclude use of secure boot.

Setting ID=debian and running update-grub fixes the problem of the missing
boot menu but then it says "Debian". This can be changed to "Devuan" by
editing /etc/default/grub, but there's no easy way to do that in the
installer.

I don't know what the solution is.

fsmithred

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