FS#39768 - [grub] Missing grub module halting boot

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jay Blanc (jayblanc) - Sunday, 06 April 2014, 14:49 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Monday, 06 July 2015, 15:13 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 5
Private No

Details

Description:
The latest arch distributed kernel seems to require compression modules not loaded by default in the grub configuration.

This results in a hang on loading the kernel. I am not sure how many systems this affects, as I have only seen it occur on my system.

Steps to reproduce:
Booting as normal on an affected system.

Steps to work around:
Adding "insmod squash4" to the grub configuration. May only require some of the dependency loaded modules. I worked back to this module, after discovering the system would boot following loading of grub modules required for parttool.
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Closed by  Doug Newgard (Scimmia)
Monday, 06 July 2015, 15:13 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Jay Blanc (jayblanc) - Sunday, 06 April 2014, 16:10 GMT
After some test reboots it seems the issue is that the update of grub required a manual reinstallation of the grub image to restore the system to a reliably bootable state.
Comment by abc (Xiflite) - Thursday, 10 April 2014, 21:22 GMT
Same problem for me since upgrading to Kernel 3.14. I'm booting a md-device using efi-grub installed in /boot/efi:
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --bootloader-id=arch_grub --recheck --debug

Booting Kernel 3.13.8 is working fine.

Already tried:
Upgrading grub package, deleting /boot/efi and run grub-install again.
Running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Rerunning mkinitcpio

After each step: Kernel 3.13 works, 3.14 not.

Help appreciated.
Comment by t-ask (tAsk) - Saturday, 10 January 2015, 14:19 GMT
Is this bug still affecting you?
Comment by abc (Xiflite) - Saturday, 10 January 2015, 14:44 GMT
I am not booting md-devices anymore (but btrfs RAID devices).
Comment by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 22:40 GMT
jayblanc, still an issue for you?

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