[Bug 1765484] Re: grub-install should handle /boot/efi on RAID1

[Kees Cook]

The error, specifically, is:


Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
efibootmgr: option requires an argument -- 'd'
...
grub-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: Operation not permitted.
Failed: grub-install --target=x86_64-efi  
WARNING: Bootloader is not properly installed, system may not be bootable

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Title:
  grub-install should handle /boot/efi on RAID1

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I am using grub-efi. I have /boot/efi as a RAID1 with metadata=1.0 at
  the _end_ of the partition so it can still be seen by UEFI boot
  firmware as a FAT32 filesystem. grub-install calls efibootmgr with and
  empty -d argument:

  efibootmgr -c -d "" ...

  since it can't figure out what drive /boot/efi is on. With grub-pc,
  when /boot was on a RAID1, grub-install would get run via the grub-pc
  postinst for each component of the raid (and/or as a list presented to
  the user via debconf).

  For example, with this:

  # cat /proc/mdstat
  Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] 
  md0 : active raid1 sda1[2] sdb1[0]
        524224 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU]

  if /dev/md0 was mounted on /boot, grub-pc's postinst would run grub-
  install on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.

  In the UEFI case, if /dev/md0 is mounted on /boot/efi, I would expect
  efibootmgr to be run multiple times for each component:

  efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sda1 -L ubuntu-sda1 ...
  efibootmgr -c -d /dev/sdb1 -L ubuntu-sdb1 ...

  Dunno about boot ordering, etc. I'm not actually using efibootmgr
  currently. As a work-around, I ran "dpkg-reconfigure -p low grub-efi"
  and disabled the NVRAM setting in debconf (to avoid efibootmgr failing
  grub-install and causing package installs/upgrades to fail).

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