When installing the GRUB version above, I got symbol grub_is_shim_lock_enabled not found and can’t boot, so I downgraded back to grub-2:2.06.r566.g857af0e17-1-x86_64. I tried --disable-shim-lock but it didn’t help. I don’t secure boot and don’t use TPM.
Package was pushed just 5 hours ago, anyone by chance ran into the same problem?
EDIT:
Tried again today, worked. Problem was likely caused because I installed GRUB into the “arch” NVRAM entry (esp/EFI/arch) instead of the Fallback which my board only supports (esp/EFI/BOOT). To do this add --removable to grub-install. The full procedure is:
# grub-install --removable /dev/sdX ## or /dev/nvme0nX
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
I just upgraded and didn’t have any issues. I’m not experienced in this regard at all. But just to be sure, did you execute the following after the upgrade?
sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Assuming of course your grub setup doesn’t differ from mine. These two commands are all I know about grub troubleshooting…
Did grub-install /dev/sdX, x86_64-efi and ESP get detected automatically and no errors were reported. Also created grub config. Will try in a few days again. Maybe I really overlooked something or had “bad luck”. Worked fine in a VM.
Could the BIOS firmware have a part in this or is the BIOS firmware irrelevant to the bootloaders functionality?
Just installed the package… Rebooted… No issue… Did not install via grub-install yet though… Will be formating my system soon anyway so I will let you know if i get the same issue.
Had the problem only on one machine. Do you have, by chance, a MSI motherboard? Can’t myself think of other causes and having the kernel and initrd on btrfs instead of ext4 can’t be the problem?
Do you have GRUB installed into the ESPs fallback path? (esp/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI) I haven’t tried grub-install --removable yet, but maybe stuff got confused.
I find systemd-boot so much easier to use and it’s configuration is much smaller. So maybe consider to switch (if you are on UEFI).
