[bug #38479] Failure to boot on some UEFI systems (possible memory allocation issue)

[Andrey Borzenkov]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38479>

                 Summary: Failure to boot on some UEFI systems (possible
memory allocation issue)
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: arvidjaar
            Submitted on: Wed 06 Mar 2013 07:09:24 PM GMT
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: other
         Reproducibility: Intermittent
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

There are reports of failure to boot grub2 on some UEFI systems. So far
reports are about Dell Inspiron 15z 5523 and asus X202e / S200 / VivoBook.

Details are https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800035

It contains links to two openSUSE forum threads which also have some
screenshots. One of interest is http://susepaste.org/10571814.

Original report was about ELILO which fails to boot as well.

Stephan Kulow from SUSE (Cc'ed) has Dell Inspirion and is willing to provide
debug information if instructions can be given. I tried to collect at least
lsmmap/lsefimmap but apparently grub2 is not even able to load modules in this
case. If some special GRUB2 build is required I offer my help to do it.




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