** Description changed: [Impact] GCP wishes for xenial images to use GPT instead of MBR as a part of their efforts to change to efi based booting, but they have hit an issue where after booting an instance that has a disk size of 2049 GB or higher, we hang on the next subsequent boot (Logs indicate it hanging on - "Booting Hard Disk 0". + "Booting Hard Disk 0"). This is a problem in grub2 where the system would become unbootable after ext* online resize if no resize_inode was created at ext* format time. [Test Case] To reproduce: - 1) Create an image with a disk size of 3072 using a serial that has GPT: + 1) Create an image with a disk size of 3072 GB using a serial that has + GPT: gcloud compute instances create test-3072-xenial --image daily- ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20190731 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud-devel --boot-disk-size 3072 2) Reboot the instance The instance will hang on reboot and you cannot connect. If you go to GCP console and select Logs > Serial port 1 (console), you will see the boot process has stopped at "Booting Hard Disk 0". I have built a test package, which is available here: https://launchpad.net/~mruffell/+archive/ubuntu/lp1840686-test If you do step 1) but do not reboot, and instead add the PPA, install the new grub like so: 1) gcloud compute instances create test-3072-xenial --image daily-ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20190731 --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud-devel --boot-disk-size 3072 2) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mruffell/lp1840686-test 3) sudo apt-get update 4) sudo apt remove grub-common grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed grub-pc-bin grub2-common 5) sudo apt install grub-common grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-pc-bin grub2-common 6) sudo grub-install /dev/sda 7) sudo reboot The instance will boot successfully and you will be able to connect. Note, we must use "daily-ubuntu-1604-xenial-v20190731" as the image, as it is enabled for GPT and efi. GCP was reverted back to MBR and bios booting because of this bug, so the latest images will not reproduce the problem. [Regression Potential] Grub is a core package and every care must be taken in order to not introduce any regressions. The commit is present in B, D, E and F, and is considered well tested and widely adopted by the community. The commit comes with its own testcase, to test the ext4_metabg fix. The changes are localised to ext* based filesystems, although since they are the most popular family of filesystems used by the community, this does not reduce risk of breakage by much. If a regression were to happen, a regression would have a large impact, and in the worst case, can lead to unbootable systems and data loss for users who are not technical enough to reinstall grub from a working package inside the broken system chroot. [Other Info] In comment #4, Sultan identifies the fix as: commit e20aa39ea4298011ba716087713cff26c6c52006 Author: Vladimir Serbinenko <[email protected]> Date: Mon Feb 16 20:53:26 2015 +0100 Subject: ext2: Support META_BG. This commit is from upstream grub2, and can be found here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=e20aa39ea4298011ba716087713cff26c6c52006 Looking at when this was merged: $ git describe --contains e20aa39ea4298011ba716087713cff26c6c52006 2.02-beta3~429 This commit is present in B, D, E and F, leaving X as the only version needing an SRU. The commit cleanly cherry picks to X, because the delta from 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.22 to 2.02-beta3~429 is small.
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