Some UEFI firmware is easily provoked into running out of space in its
variable storage. This is usually due to certain kernel drivers (e.g.
pstore), but regardless of the cause it can cause grub-install to fail
because it currently asks efibootmgr to delete and re-add entries, and
the deletion of
This is needed for UEFI Boot* variables, which the standard says are
named using upper-case hexadecimal.
Signed-off-by: Colin Watson
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grub-core/kern/misc.c | 7 +--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/grub-core/kern/misc.c b/grub-core/kern/misc.c
index 3b633d51f.
Some UEFI firmware is easily provoked into running out of space in its
variable storage. This is usually due to certain kernel drivers (e.g.
pstore), but regardless of the cause it can cause grub-install to fail
because it currently asks efibootmgr to delete and re-add entries, and
the deletion of
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:31:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> grub-install now reuses existing boot entries where possible, and avoids
> writing to variables when the new contents are the same as the old
> contents. In the common upgrade case where nothing needs to change, it
> no longer writes
