On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:27:47PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 12:09:41PM -0430, Emilio Lazo Zaia wrote:
>>On 23/11/15 11:16, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>>>On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:50:02AM -0430, Emilio Lazo Zaia wrote:
>>>>Hello
>>>>
>>>>Debian-installer testing gives GRUB prompt while booting on UEFI platforms;
>>>>the issue is related to a broken /boot/grub/grub.cfg file. The screen shows
>>>>only Debian's background and the loaded font but no menu options are shown.
>>>>
>>>>Up to the date (Nov 23), all three (official, weekly and daily) images are
>>>>broken. Its grub.cfg file is only 449 bytes and the last line is "set
>>>>theme="; there are no "menuentry" directives, so after loading theme it
>>>>comes
>>>>with the prompt.
>>>Hmmm. Can you give me a URL to exactly which images you're looking at
>>>please? I've just looked at a daily sid amd64 netinst iso and it looks
>>>sane enough to me from the files in its build tree. This suggests
>>>we're looking at different images, maybe...
>>I'm sorry; I forgot to mention some details: multi-arch netinst ISO images
>>are the failing ones. For example:
>
>Ah, ok. Yes, I see that now. Thanks for clarifying!
>
>>Official CD and DVD multi-arch [1], [2] aren't good... amd64 and i386 looks
>>fine. Weekly multi-arch DVD and CD [3] and [4] are broken. Daily CD
>>multi-arch is also broken [5].
>>
>>grub.cfg file seems to be truncated at 449 bytes.
>
>I'm looking now to see what's broken there, thanks for reporting.
And I have a fix in place now in the debian-cd code. The weird menu
structure around the CPU auto-detection feature (unique to the
multi-arch media) was causing the problem, and I've added extra logic
to cope with that now.
Thanks very much for the bug report!
KiBi/Didier: I've now noticed the there's a slight issue with the
menus we have at the moment. Not sure if it's an artifact of the
multi-arch setup or not, but in the menus we're now getting two
different versions of the installer with speech both veing shown with
the exact same label text and the same shortcut:
label installspk
menu label Install with ^speech synthesis
kernel /install.amd/vmlinuz
append vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz speakup.synth=soft ---
quiet
label installspk
menu label Install with ^speech synthesis
kernel /install.amd/vmlinuz
append vga=788 initrd=/install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz speakup.synth=soft ---
quiet
and this is showing up in the grub menus I'm generating too. We should
probably just pick one that we want?
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