include patch to resolve bug where grub2 cannot boot Dell PowerEdge 12G systems in UEFI mode

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I'm currently working on packaging GRUB 2.00, and hope to get that into Ubuntu 12.10. Since the patch against 2.00 for this is very much simpler, I'd prefer to take that route if possible.

I've now included the patch against 2.00 in my packaging-in-progress.

Thank you. Please let me know if and when you have anything available for testing. I'd be happy to verify your grub 2.00 package on the systems in our lab.

If you'd like to look at https://launchpad.net/~cjwatson/+archive/grub and see how that works for you, that would be welcome. Be warned that I have only tested this myself on BIOS so far!

I verified that I can now UEFI boot using your grub 2.00 package on a PowerEdge R820. \o/

Thanks for testing!

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.00-3ubuntu1

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grub2 (2.00-3ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  * Resynchronise with Debian (LP: #1046890). Remaining changes:
    - Adjust for default Ubuntu boot options ("quiet splash").
    - Default to hiding the menu; holding down Shift at boot will show it.
    - Set a monochromatic theme and an appropriate background for Ubuntu.
    - Apply Ubuntu GRUB Legacy changes to legacy update-grub script.
    - Fix backslash-escaping in merge_debconf_into_conf.
    - Remove "GNU/Linux" from default distributor string.
    - Add crashkernel option.
    - Bypass menu unless other OSes are installed or Shift is pressed.
    - Allow Shift to interrupt 'sleep --interruptible'.
    - Reduce visual clutter in normal mode.
    - Remove verbose messages printed before reading configuration.
    - Suppress kernel/initrd progress messages, except in recovery mode.
    - Show the boot menu if the previous boot failed.
    - Adjust upgrade version checks for Ubuntu.
    - Suppress "GRUB loading" message unless Shift is held down.
    - Adjust versions of grub-doc and grub-legacy-doc conflicts.
    - Look for .mo files in /usr/share/locale-langpack first.
    - Build-depend on qemu-kvm rather than qemu-system for grub-pc tests.
    - Check hardware support before using gfxpayload=keep.
    - Set vt.handoff=7 for smooth handoff to kernel graphical mode.
    - In recovery mode, add nomodeset to the Linux kernel arguments, and
      remove the 'set gfxpayload=keep' command.
    - Skip Windows os-prober entries on Wubi systems, and suppress the menu
      by default if those are the only other-OS entries.
    - Handle probing striped DM-RAID devices.
    - Replace 'single' by 'recovery' when friendly-recovery is installed.
    - Disable cursor as early as possible in grub_main.
    - Avoid getting confused by inaccessible loop device backing paths.
  * Apply patch from Fedora to forbid insmod on UEFI secure boot.

grub2 (2.00-3) experimental; urgency=low

  * Use dh-autoreconf.
  * Bail out if trying to run grub-mkconfig during upgrade to 2.00 (e.g.
    while configuring a kernel image), since the old /etc/grub.d/00_header
    conffile breaks until such time as grub-common is configured.

grub2 (2.00-2) experimental; urgency=low

  * Add -Wno-error=unused-result to HOST_CFLAGS for the moment, since at
    least grub-core/lib/crypto.c fails to compile on Ubuntu otherwise.
  * Update default/grub.md5sum to include Ubuntu maverick's default md5sum.
  * Autogenerate packaging files for grub-emu, in order that its postinst
    does not contain unexpanded @PACKAGE@ symbols.
  * Only try to install efiemu*.o into grub-emu on *-i386.

grub2 (2.00-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Jordi Mallach, Colin Watson ]
  * New upstream release.
    - Add LUKS and GELI encrypted disk support (closes: #463107).
    - Lazy scanning to avoid accessing devices which aren't really used.
      This avoids boot delay due to slow device scanning (closes: #549905,
      #550015, #550083, #564252, #595059, #632408).
    - Don't override more informative errors when loading kernel/initrd
      (closes: #551630).
    - Support 4K-sector...

Hello Daniel, or anyone else affected,

Accepted grub2 into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/1.99-21ubuntu3.8 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Tested the proposed grub packages on 3 servers:

PowerEdge 11G Series, which always worked in EFI mode

PowerEdge 12G Series with the 'broken' BIOS - i.e. one where 12.04 would not boot in EFI mode.

PowerEdge 12G Series with the 'fixed' BIOS that allowed 12.04 to boot in EFI mode.

To test, I downloaded the proposed grub packages to a USB stick. Once Ubuntu had been installed, but before the system was rebooted, I did the following:

1) Went to virtual terminal 2 and chrooted into the installed system (“chroot /target”).
2) Mounted the USB stick.
3) Installed the new grub packages from my USB stick.
4) Typed exit, then flipped back to the installer screen and hit Continue to reboot.

All 3 systems booted successfully. The 12G system with the 'broken' BIOS would not boot 12.04 in EFI mode in the past. Now it does.

I also reinstalled all 3 systems in legacy BIOS mode and updated only the applicable grub packages from proposed to make sure there were no problems. Everything checked out fine there as well.

I think we are in good shape.

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 1.99-21ubuntu3.9

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grub2 (1.99-21ubuntu3.9) precise; urgency=low

  * Also skip update-grub when running in a container (LP: #1060404).
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:43:32 +0000