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bug #67078: 2.12: EFI: loading initrd.img fails with kernel panic

Submitter:  Martin-Éric Racine <perkelix>
Submitted:  Sat 03 May 2025 03:14:25 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name: 
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  other
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sun 04 May 2025 09:32:13 AM UTC, comment #4: 

I've somehow managed to reduce the picture's size enough to attach it to this bug report and keep its content readable.

As for pristine upstream tarball versus Debian packages, point taken: Debian's source tarball comes with a whopping 146 patches.

Martin-Éric Racine <perkelix>
Sat 03 May 2025 04:12:47 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Apparently, the 16k attachment size limit is gonna cause problems. As much as I tried playing with imagemagick convert options, I cannot reach an image file size that small.

Martin-Éric Racine <perkelix>
Sat 03 May 2025 03:50:31 PM UTC, comment #2: 


comment #1:

> Do you have an exact message rather than "kernel panic"?


See attachment.

> Does it happen with upstream GRUB rather than debian one?


#define upstream GRUB.

Martin-Éric Racine <perkelix>
Sat 03 May 2025 03:22:13 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Do you have an exact message rather than "kernel panic"? Does it happen with upstream GRUB rather than debian one? Does it happen in VM?

Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder>
Group administrator
Sat 03 May 2025 03:14:25 PM UTC, original submission:  

A regression since GRUB 2.06:

On Debian, after upgrading GRUB-EFI from 2.06 to 2.12 (dist-upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie), loading initrd.img fails with a kernel panic. Reverting grub* packages to 2.06 restores normal booting.

As a further test, I've tried booting with different Debian rescue media off USB.

1) Booting with debian-installer Bookworm (GRUB 2.06, Linux 6.1) off a USB stick works fine in both BIOS and EFI mode.

1) Booting with debian-installer Trixie (GRUB 2.12, Linux 6.12) off a USB stick works fine in BIOS mode, but gets the same kernel panic as above in EFI mode.

Hardware: ASUS P8H61, BIOS 4306 09/22/2013

The firmware version is the latest for this motherboard.

Martin-Éric Racine <perkelix>

 

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