Control: tags -1 + patch On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 02:43:24PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > The problem can be worked around by passing the `--force-extra-removable` to > > grub-install. This can be done after the upgrade (but before rebooting), or > > it'll happen automatically if the grub2/force_efi_extra_removable variable > > to true before the upgrade, e.g. > > > > echo "grub-efi-arm64 grub2/force_efi_extra_removable boolean true" | \ > > sudo debconf-set-selections > > > > With this option, grub-install updates the content of /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT, > > which otherwise does not get updated. > > The cloud image build passes `--force-extra-removable` to grub-install > to place grub in the fallback UEFI path.[1] This is necessary because > we can't provide EFI boot order settings as part of the image. Thus, I > think we also need to take care to ensure that these grub components are > kept up-to-date through dist-upgrades. We can do that by setting > grub2/force_efi_extra_removable=true in debconf in the images (i.e. in > the same script in which we're calling grub-install)
Fix is in https://salsa.debian.org/cloud-team/debian-cloud-images/-/merge_requests/496
