Bug 30580

Summary:	Grub2 installation fails on EFI partition
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Franz Holzinger <flink>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	Normal
Version:	8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	lspcidrake fstab grub custom.cfg modprobe.conf fstab on installed system

Description Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 14:59:24 CEST

New installation of Mageia 8 based on the Mageia 8 GNOME Live DVD.
After repartitioning and format of the /sda1 partition because the Windows 10 EFI  partition enhanced NTFS has not been accepted by Mageia 8,
I finally could install Mageia 8 But the now Grub2 seems not to be able to write itself on the renamed partition /dev/sda5 



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Das Programm "draklive-install" ist mit folgender Fehlermeldung abgestürzt:

  grub2-install failed: x86_64-efi wird fÃ¼r Ihre Plattform installiert.
  Could not prepare Boot variable: Function not implemented
  grub2-install: Fehler: efibootmgr schlug beim Registrieren des Boot-Eintrags fehl: Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler.
  	...propagated at /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm line 278.
  Perl's trace:
  drakbug::bug_handler() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm:278
  any::installBootloader() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:409
  main::setup_bootloader() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:109
  main::install_live() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:72

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Comment 1 Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 15:00:26 CEST

Created attachment 13312 [details]
lspcidrake

Comment 2 Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 15:07:57 CEST

Created attachment 13313 [details]
fstab

Comment 3 Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 15:09:26 CEST

Created attachment 13314 [details]
grub custom.cfg

Comment 4 Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 15:11:07 CEST

Created attachment 13315 [details]
modprobe.conf

Comment 5 sturmvogel 2022-06-24 15:19:29 CEST

Thank you for the report. The informations regarding the formatting process is unclear. You mention NTFS (not possible to install any linux on it). Did you use drakdisk for formatting? Which options did you chose?

https://doc.mageia.org/draklive/8/en/content/diskPartitioning.html

Your fstab doesn't contain any partitions.

Comment 6 sturmvogel 2022-06-24 15:23:17 CEST

Did you try to check "Install in /EFI/BOOT." for buggy BIOS?

https://doc.mageia.org/draklive/8/en/content/setupBootloader.html#d4e778

Comment 7 Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 15:28:14 CEST

I had to reformat the /dev/sda1 from the NTFS-enhanced Filesystem to FAT-32, because Mageia demanded a FAT-32 to be mounted at /boot/efi or similar.
This had the second drawback that it has been renamed to /dev/sda5 by the partition tool when I had to change the disk format type.

I do not know why /etc/fstab does not have the partitions on the Live DVD system. But probably they are not mounted on the Live system. The partions are only mounted when I reboot from the harddrive and not from the Live DVD.

I have used gparted to generate the partitions. Later I have used drakdisk to format the partitions.

Comment 8 Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 16:14:50 CEST

>> Did you try to check "Install in /EFI/BOOT." for buggy BIOS?

I do not get this in the first dialog in the Mageia Installation.

Bootloader: GRUB with graphical menu

Boot Device: EFI system partition

But in the second dialog after the download of the boot packages I get:


o  ... test alien/other OS
o  ... install in EFI/boot


I did only check the first.

Now I try to check both of them.

==>  success. No immediate error message or crash now!
I will report a new bug in the case the boot process will still make troubles.

Comment 9 Franz Holzinger 2022-06-24 16:26:36 CEST

Created attachment 13316 [details]
fstab on installed system

Comment 10 sturmvogel 2022-06-24 16:39:40 CEST

So no bug on Mageia side...only a buggy BIOS of your mainboard which can worked around by ticking the right box in the installer.

Setting to FIXED.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED