[bug #37280] GRUB EFI 2.00 doesn't start with "error: couldn't terminate EFI services"

[Giovanni Mascellani]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?37280>

                 Summary: GRUB EFI 2.00 doesn't start with "error: couldn't
terminate EFI services"
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: giomasce
            Submitted on: gio 06 set 2012 08:38:56 GMT
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  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:

Hi.

I'm having problems with GRUB EFI on my new laptop, which is an Asus
N56VZ-S4033V with Aptio version 2.14.1219 (it also advertises itself as
version 204, don't know which number is more significant). I'm using Debian
GNU/Linux sid (unstable) on it.

I compiled grub-2.00 with this command:

./configure --with-platform=efi --target=x86_64 --program-prefix=""
--prefix="/opt/grub"
make
make install

Then I installed it with:

/opt/grub/sbin/grub-install --directory=/opt/grub/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/
--efi-directory=/mnt/efi
/opt/grub/sbin/grub-mkconfig > /mnt/efi/EFI/grub/grub.cfg

(the system EFI partition is mounted in /mnt/efi).

When I boot GRUB, the menu is displayed properly, but I can't boot Linux.
Specifically, that what happens: if I boot the first entry in the GRUB menu
("GNU/Linux", created by grub-mkconfig, see configuration attached), sometimes
(somewhat like once in ten attempts, but I have no precise statistics) it
works perfectly, Linux boots and works as expected. In the other cases, after
writing some lines I can't read (but see below), the GRUB menu gets displayed
again nearly immediately. If I choose again the same entry, Linux apparently
starts, but stops at the initramfs stage, complaining that it doesn't find
/etc/fstab and cannot find init.

The same kernel and initrd work always, for example, when served via PXE by
another computer (at the moment, this is the only way I have to reliably boot
my computer).

To better understand what's going on, I try, instead of just pressing Enter to
boot the first option, to edit it with E and, without actually touching
anything, booting it with F10. This way I can see what it writes.

The first time it writes:

---
Caricamento Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64...
Caricamento ramdisk iniziale...
error: couldn't terminate EFI services.

Press any key to continue...
---

Than I press I key and I'm back to the edit screen for the first entry. I go
with F10 again and this time Linux boots, but with the initramfs problem I
wrote above.




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File Attachments:


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Date: gio 06 set 2012 08:38:56 GMT  Name: grub.cfg  Size: 6kB   By: giomasce
GRUB configuration
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=26484>

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