Dear Fedora Community
It seems that for grub
shipped within Fedora, some features have been lost or are unavailable or broken
-
loopback
command generates errors
grub> loopback loop /Fedora-Workstation-Live-x64_86-36_Beta-1.4.iso
error: ../../grub-core/kern/mm.c:376: out of memory
This error does exist for different versions of grub2 from Fedora 33 to Fedora 37
The loopback command works without error only for Fedora 32 (Whose EOL is in 1 month…) and previous versions
-
smbios
module doesn’t exist neither in Fedora Workstation .iso releases images nor in Fedora Sources Packages but is documented by GNU/Grub2 from upstream and downstream by Red Hat Bootloader Team - Some recent EFI features exist but are not accessible: connectefi and efifwsetup
So on systems with UEFI/SecureBoot activated, grub prompt does not propose any of those commands:smbios
,connectefi
,efifwsetup
- Any documentation or tools to explain how Internationalization for grub could be done in Fedora (Fr Language and Keyboard for example) is lacking
I do lack the knowledge skill and the time to file an entry in Bugzilla and I do not known how to contact the maintainers of Fedora Source Package for rpm/grub2
Since grub2 has to be signed by Fedora so that in SecureBoot on mode, shim would not hand over to grub otherwise, creating a compiled custom GNU/Grub from upstream is not feasible
Can anyone contribute and forward those elements to the package maintainers (rhboot and/or grub2) so it can be shared / discussed and maybe a link forwarded in this thread ?
Thanks for your help