[bug #46805] grub 2.02_beta2 - grub-install fails with "efibootmgr: option requires an argument -- 'd'" on EFI with software raid 1

[Tomas Mozes]

URL:
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                 Summary: grub 2.02_beta2 - grub-install fails with
"efibootmgr: option requires an argument -- 'd'" on EFI with software raid 1
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: hydrapolic
            Submitted on: Mon 04 Jan 2016 06:16:42 AM GMT
                Category: Configuration
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 2.02~beta1
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Hello,
grub2-install fails on a Linux Gentoo system with 2 disks in RAID 1 with EFI.
This is not a new install and when installing the machine it worked ok (back
in 2014) with different (older) software versions.
     
# grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi /dev/sda
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
efibootmgr: EFI variables are not supported on this system.
efibootmgr: option requires an argument -- 'd'
efibootmgr version 0.12
usage: efibootmgr [options]
        -a | --active         sets bootnum active
        -A | --inactive       sets bootnum inactive
        -b | --bootnum XXXX   modify BootXXXX (hex)
        -B | --delete-bootnum delete bootnum (hex)
        -c | --create         create new variable bootnum and add to
bootorder
        -C | --create-only      create new variable bootnum and do not add to
bootorder
        -D | --remove-dups      remove duplicate values from BootOrder
        -d | --disk disk       (defaults to /dev/sda) containing loader
        -e | --edd [1|3|-1]   force EDD 1.0 or 3.0 creation variables, or
guess
        -E | --device num      EDD 1.0 device number (defaults to 0x80)
        -g | --gpt            force disk with invalid PMBR to be treated as
GPT
        -i | --iface name     create a netboot entry for the named interface
        -l | --loader name     (defaults to \EFI\redhat\grub.efi)
        -L | --label label     Boot manager display label (defaults to
"Linux")
        -n | --bootnext XXXX   set BootNext to XXXX (hex)
        -N | --delete-bootnext delete BootNext
        -o | --bootorder XXXX,YYYY,ZZZZ,...     explicitly set BootOrder
(hex)
        -O | --delete-bootorder delete BootOrder
        -p | --part part        (defaults to 1) containing loader
        -q | --quiet            be quiet
        -t | --timeout seconds  set boot manager timeout waiting for user
input.
        -T | --delete-timeout   delete Timeout.
        -u | --unicode | --UCS-2  pass extra args as UCS-2 (default is ASCII)
        -v | --verbose          print additional information
        -V | --version          return version and exit
        -w | --write-signature  write unique sig to MBR if needed
        -@ | --append-binary-args file  append extra args from file (use "-"
for stdin)
        -h | --help             show help/usage
Installation finished. No error reported.


# emerge --info grub
sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r8::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="fonts multislot themes -debug -device-mapper -doc -efiemu (-libzfs)
-mount -nls -sdl -static -test -truetype" ABI_X86="64" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64
-coreboot -efi-32 -emu -ieee1275 -loongson -multiboot -pc -qemu -qemu-mips
-uboot -xen"


# emerge --info efibootmgr
sys-boot/efibootmgr-0.12::gentoo was built with the following:
USE="" ABI_X86="64"


# fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: ECF92001-A210-4575-B83C-6D8CFBE46E47

Device        Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1      2048     976895     974848   476M EFI System
/dev/sda2    976896   20508671   19531776   9.3G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  20508672 1953523711 1933015040 921.8G Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 61BFF92D-D369-4DD1-AC79-AC535D275C58

Device        Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdb1      2048     976895     974848   476M EFI System
/dev/sdb2    976896   20508671   19531776   9.3G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb3  20508672 1953523711 1933015040 921.8G Linux LVM


# cat /proc/mdstat 
Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10]     
      
md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1]
      487360 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md2 : active raid1 sda2[0] sdb2[1]
      9765824 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md3 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1]
      966506360 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]


# zcat /proc/config.gz  | grep -i efi
CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_EFI=y
# CONFIG_EFI_STUB is not set
CONFIG_FB_EFI=y
CONFIG_DMI_SCAN_MACHINE_NON_EFI_FALLBACK=y
# EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) Support
CONFIG_EFI_VARS=y
CONFIG_EFI_RUNTIME_MAP=y
CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS=y
CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_EFI=y


This was reported on Gentoo Linux at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568956



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Date: Mon 04 Jan 2016 06:16:43 AM GMT  Name: grub.log  Size: 531kB   By:
hydrapolic
grub log with debug
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=35913>

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