On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:08:59 +1000
Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Having done a warm boot and gotten the tpm error, I opened the grub
> console and issued the ls subcommand which showed that what the
> system sees as hd2 on a normal boot, when the tpm error occurs
> "grub/system" is seeing that same drive as hd0.
> Hence it sees (hd0,gpt1) through (hd0,gp9) and for hd1 through hd4 it
> only sees gpt1, which matches the ssd drive and the four hard disks
> which only 1 partition each.
> What I don't understand is when the error occurs, why grub is seeing
^ not?
> the physical drives in the order that I would expect them go be given
> the way they are physically plugged into the motherboard. And more
> importantly, what component update is causing this issue?
Was grub updated?
> The one thing I haven't tried yet is for a normal boot, booting off
> an older kernel to see if it gets the issue, and if not, the issue is
> potentially the current kernel?
Yes that would be a good test. There have been a lot of changes to the
fedora kernel SPEC file to clean it up, and streamline it. It isn't
impossible that you are seeing a corner case side effect of that,
though unlikely.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
> > To answer Stan's question from earlier, I've had lots of warm start
> > reboots since updating the bios and adding in the keys for the
> > nvidia drivers.
> > Trying to identify which package may be causing the issue might be
> > problematic, as I was on holidays for 6 weeks and did an update
> > when I got back, which updated around 350 packages.
> > I'll check the grub console when I reboot my system.
> > One other thing I forgot to mention, there is also an entry in the
> > menu to boot into a UEFI shell, and when I try to boot into that it
> > also gets the tpm errors.
> >
> > Just as an off-topic question, hd2 is my solid state drive
> > containing windows drive C, the UEFI partitions for Windows, F38
> > and Ubuntu, and the F38 and Ubuntu /boot partitions. That drive is
> > plugged into the first physical port on the motherboard, so why
> > does F38 not see it as hd0? The two drives it sees as hd0 and hd1
> > are plugged into ports 3 - 6 (I've got 4 3 TB hard drives).
I don't have an answer, but I wonder if there is an obscure setting in
the bios that is responsible. What is the boot order set to?
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