Re: [Regression] efi: Don't display a uefi-firmware entry if it's not supported

[Robbie Harwood]

Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> writes:

>> Hello Robbie, hello Daniel,
>>
>> with the commit 26031d3b101648352e4e427f04bf69d320088e77
>> 30_uefi-firmware will always call `fwsetup --is-supported' to check
>> if the system supports EFI or not. However most installed grub
>> versions on MBR don't support the '--is-supported' flag and crash the
>> menu creation routine.
>>
>> Arch Linux is tracking the issue here: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75701
>>
>> What would be the best approach with older installations of grub via
>> grub-install not having to reinstall grub to MBR as some users don't
>> even know on how to install grub properly as that job a graphical
>> installer does.
>
> Hi all,

Adding grub-devel to CC.

> I looked into the '30_uefi-firmware' changes a little more and also 
> commented my findings at the Arch-Bugtracker: 
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75701#comment210684
>
> Before Menu changes we simply had this:
>
> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
> menuentry 'UEFI Firmware Settings' $menuentry_id_option 'uefi-firmware' {
>    fwsetup
> }
> ### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
>
> After Menu changes we went to that:
>
> ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
> fwsetup --is-supported
> if [ "$grub_platform" = "efi" -a "$?" = 0 ]; then
>    menuentry 'UEFI Firmware Settings' $menuentry_id_option 'uefi-firmware' {
>      fwsetup
>    }
> fi
> ### END /etc/grub.d/30_uefi-firmware ###
>
> So 0eb684e8bfb0a9d2d42017a354740be25947babe I get and 
> 26031d3b101648352e4e427f04bf69d320088e77 tries to improve things, 
> however doesn't count in what will happen if 'fwsetup' is not supporting 
> the flag. It may either crash due to 
> 1e79bbfbda24a08cb856ff30f8b1bec460779b91 or start UEFI firmware instead.

Why doesn't grub on the MBR get updated when you install a new grub
package?  That seems like the real issue here - what am I missing?

Regardless, if we can't count on fwsetup being updated, then I think we
need to go back to the original version of my patch which doesn't have
--is-supported.

> Simply don't break user-space when older grub got installed to MBR. 
> Somehow this idea needs some more thinking and a solution for that
> case too.

Sure, what do you suggest?

Be well,
--Robbie

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