Re: F29 hidden GRUB, problem testing and how to unhide

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On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Adam Williamson
<adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 18:45 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:37 PM, Adam Williamson
>> <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 20:09 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > On 18-09-18 17:28, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>> > > > <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 08:36:32AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> > > > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > > > > > Hi,
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > On 18-09-18 01:12, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> > > > > > > > I've got a Fedora 29 Silverblue installation in a VM.
>> > > > > What kind of VM is it?
>> > > >
>> > > > qemu/kvm using virt-manager
>> > > >
>> > > > I am not using direct kernel boot. The grub command line, which is the
>> > > > only thing that has that command line, is passed onto the kernel and I
>> > > > can see that in dmesg - which would not be the case with direct kernel
>> > > > boot, if grub were being skipped.
>> > >
>> > > Ok, I've managed to reproduce this in a classic BIOS boot using VM and
>> > > then after updating grub2 to 2.02-58 and running grub2-mkinstall the
>> > > problem went away. It looks like this somehow for broken in one specific
>> > > grub2 build and then fixed again with anyone from the rhboot group
>> > > realizing it was broken in the interim.
>> > >
>> > > Please try upgrading to grub2-2.02-58 from updates-testing and if
>> > > you are using classic BIOS boot also run grub2-mkinstall after this.
>> >
>> > Note, I can't reproduce this with an install of Beta RC3 Workstation
>> > live to a BIOS vm in virt-manager. F8 works every time to bring up the
>> > boot menu (yes, I checked that if I *don't* press F8, the boot menu
>> > *doesn't* show up, too).
>> >
>> > Perhaps this is Silverblue-specific somehow?
>>
>> No I reproduced the problem with beta 1.3 in both BIOS and UEFI VMs
>> using virt-manager. I tried ESC, Shift, F8, space - both holding, and
>> rapid pressing. *shrug*
>
> That's odd, it definitely works for me...
>
> given the confusion here, I'm sending the RC4 request without grub2
> -58. If we wind up finding more blockers, maybe it can go into RC5...

I'm not finding a criterion requiring either the key reveal feature to
work; or for the failed boot detection to work. Seems like that might
need a tweak. Sure, anything that breaks boot and ability to login is
itself a blocker anyway.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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