[bug #57381] EFI image with wrong prefix when bootload-id is specified

[Adam Li]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57381>

                 Summary: EFI image with wrong prefix when bootload-id is
specified
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: c0redumb
            Submitted on: Sun 08 Dec 2019 05:23:24 AM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Adam Li
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 2.02
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

This is with Grub 2.02 that comes with Ubuntu 18.04.

When --bootloader-id is specified when running "grub-install" with target
x86_64-efi (for example, --bootloader-id myboot), the efi image file
(grubx64.efi) is generated and put in folder /EFI/myboot/ on ESP. The initial
load configure file (grub.cfg) is also put in the same folder (/EFI/myboot/ on
ESP).

However, the efi image file is generated with prefix of "/EFI/ubuntu". This
can be verified by run "strings grubx64.efi" on the efi image file.

As a result, the grub efi file can not find the initial configuration file and
falls back to the command interface. It is trying to find it at esp/EFI/ubuntu
(based on the prefix), but indeed it should be at esp/EFI/myboot.

I believe this should be an easy fix by looking at how bootloader_id and
distributor_id was use in grub-install.c. But I had trouble building the grub
project from git (that's probably another story). Some one on your team who is
more familiar with the code could make that change easily.

Thanks.




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