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and subject line Bug#1012865: fixed in grub2 2.06-9
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regarding grub2: Re-enable discovery of other OSes by default
(GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false)
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Source: grub2
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Version: 2.06-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
Grub's upstream has changed its default behavior regarding discovery
of other OSes by disabling the feature (os-prober).
This has come to my attention when updating grub2 on testing today:
https://salsa.debian.org/grub-team/grub/-/blob/f844128767f947e18f86ba8a32d745f9d7a60b57/debian/NEWS#L1-L5
When briefly discussing this over IRC at debian-devel, I was pointed
at another brief discussion, which has a nice summary of the
reasonings behind it:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2021-December/041769.html
This is my request for us to not follow upstream's default, and stick
to discovering other OSes in the system, as it was the previous
behavior.
I'm worried that not doing so will lead to a lot of frustration for
our users, as this basically means shipping Debian without dual boot
support out of the box.
The users would need to 1st: know about this issue and 2nd: perform a
configuration change and grub update.
I understand we have the NEWS file in place to warn users upgrading
their systems, and also that grub will print a warning about it, but I
don't think this is good enough as it will catch a lot of users by
surprise.
I also don't think there's a worthy trade-off being made here
(security vs user experience), the Ubuntu mailing list does discuss
better alternatives which would require some more work, but with only
2 options in the table (OS discovery enabled or disabled), I prefer
enabled.
Regards,
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Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
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Source: grub2
Source-Version: 2.06-9
Done: Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> (supplier of updated grub2 package)
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:35:11 +0100
Source: grub2
Architecture: source
Version: 2.06-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
Closes: 1001248 1012865 1020769 1025698 1028301 1031594 1033657
Changes:
grub2 (2.06-9) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Steve McIntyre ]
* postinst: make config_item() more robust
* Add debconf logic for GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER to make it easier to
control things here. Particularly useful for the installer.
Closes: #1031594, #1012865, #1025698.
* Add luks2 to the signed grub efi images. Closes: #1001248
.
[ Ben Hutchings ]
* Fix probing of LUKS2 devices (Closes: #1028301):
- disk/cryptodisk: When cheatmounting, use the sector info of the cheat
device
- osdep/devmapper/getroot: Have devmapper recognize LUKS2
- osdep/devmapper/getroot: Set up cheated LUKS2 cryptodisk mount from DM
parameters
.
[ Emanuele Rocca ]
* Add arm64-handover-to-kernel-if-sb-enabled.patch to fix Secure Boot on
arm64 (Closes: #1033657)
.
[ Mattia Rizzolo ]
* Don't warn about os-prober if it's not installed. Closes: #1020769
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