Control: severity 988217 serious

On 2021-05-07, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2021-04-16, Bastian Germann wrote:
>> On a Lamobo R1, I can verify 2021.01 versions not to boot with a
>> default environment. However, 2020.10+dfsg-2 boots. Even though the
>> original issue has the same outcome, I guess it is caused by something
>> else.
>
> Different enough to warrant it's own bug, cloning...
>
>
>> I figured out my problem is caused by
>> https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/f3866909e35074ea6f50226d40487a180de1132f.
>>  The
>> boot_efi_bootmgr will run and read a bad dtb, which makes a boot.scr
>> boot fail.
>
> This would definitely be good to fix in bullseye, but this is quite late
> in the release cycle.

After recently upgrading several more systems that turned out to be
affected by this, I'm bumping the severity of this bug...


> Will need to test failure and success cases with and without EFI as well
> as boot.scr and extlinux.conf to make sure this doesn't cause
> regressions in other boot paths...

This still needs some work!


> An ugly workaround in the meantime would be to add a no-op boot.scr on
> the media (e.g. mmc0) and then fall back to the other boot methods.

I'm not sure this workaround is viable in a variety of situations...


live well,
  vagrant

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