SLES 12 installation with secure boot - drop to grub2 shell

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Install-Boot
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Hello,

I just tried SLES 12 beta2 installation on our x86_64 machine. I enroll the shim-sles.der certificate so that I can proceed the full installation with secure boot enabled.

After the installation, the system reboots normally. But it drops into grub2 shell: grub>

After some investigation, I found that this “grub2” can’t find its configfile. Because once I specify it manually as
grub> configfile (hd1,gpt3)/@/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

The grub menu pops normally and I can boot into SLES without problems (with secure boot enabled!!).

The strange point is the grub2’s root path includes an extra ‘@’ symbol after the root path. Check this:
grub>ls (hd1,gpt3)/
@/

grub>ls (hd1,gpt3)/@
dev/ run/ selinux/ boot/ lib/ …

grub>set
…
prefix=(hd1,gpt3)/boot/grub2
pxe_default_server=
root=hd1,gpt3
…

No wonder that this grub2 can’t find its way to the configfile because it needs an extra ‘@’ symbol.

Is this grub 2.02~beta2 's bug or the SLES 12 installer’s bug?
Thanks.

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On 17/03/2014 09:54, robertyschen wrote:
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I just tried SLES 12 beta2 installation on our x86_64 machine. I enroll
the shim-sles.der certificate so that I can proceed the full
installation with secure boot enabled.

After the installation, the system reboots normally. But it drops into
grub2 shell: grub>

After some investigation, I found that this “grub2” can’t find its
configfile. Because once I specify it manually as
grub> configfile (hd1,gpt3)/@/boot/grub2/grub.cfg

The grub menu pops normally and I can boot into SLES without problems
(with secure boot enabled!!).

The strange point is the grub2’s root path includes an extra ‘@’ symbol
after the root path. Check this:
grub>ls (hd1,gpt3)/
@/

grub>ls (hd1,gpt3)/@
dev/ run/ selinux/ boot/ lib/ …

grub>set
…
prefix=(hd1,gpt3)/boot/grub2
pxe_default_server=
root=hd1,gpt3
…

No wonder that this grub2 can’t find its way to the configfile because
it needs an extra ‘@’ symbol.

Is this grub 2.02~beta2 's bug or the SLES 12 installer’s bug?
Thanks.[/color]

Since SLES12 is currently a closed beta, you should have received
details of a mailing list to be used for reporting issues.

HTH.

Simon
SUSE Knowledge Partner

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