Package: systemd Version: 229-6 Severity: important After gummiboot has been integrated into systemd as systemd-boot, I decided to give this new feature a try and installed a new machine with systemd, not installing gummiboot or any other boot loader. The machine is capable of booting an UEFI stub, so systemd-boot should be able to handle this. However, with this approach the machine failed to boot. Only after manually copying the kernel and initramfs from /boot to /boot/efi, and manually setting up the relevant data structures in /boot/efi the machine came up as expected.It seems that integrating gummiboot into systemd is missing a critical piece, that is the update-gummiboot script that copies the kernel files. This script was installed in the postinst hook for kernels at /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ but is absent in systemd. Because of this omission new installs are broken, this is why I set the severy of this bug report to "important". Please add an equivalent of the update-gummiboot script to systemd.
For anyone interested, I've submitted https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/merge_requests/138Which also ships some very basic /etc/kernel hooks and a simplistic postinst.
Would welcome feedback / follow-up fixes if needed. Michael
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