Grub2 cannot boot up when 8254 time function disable

The patch which fixed this issue has included in the upstream git repository,
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=446794de8da4329ea532cbee4ca877bcafd0e534

I have pinged cyphermox on irc to apply the patch in #1 to Xenial.

Please also update http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-proposed/main/installer-amd64/current/images/cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz or something like for this issue on xenial.

That will need a d-i upload as well then, after grub is released.

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.02-2ubuntu2

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grub2 (2.02-2ubuntu2) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch to change the default TSC calibration method
    to pmtimer on EFI systems (LP: #1734278)
  * debian/control: Update Vcs fields for code location on Ubuntu.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Dec 2017 11:47:31 -0500

For OEM project, we need grub and debian-installer packages to be SRUed (xenial-proposed) before 2018/1/5

Hello Ivan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted grub2 into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.15 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Ivan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted grub2-signed into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed/1.66.15 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

amd64 build of grub2-signed 1.66.15 in ubuntu xenial PROPOSED
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed/1.66.15/+build/13848452

Dependency wait on lgw01-amd64-021

Missing build dependencies: grub-efi-amd64-bin (>= 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.15)
Started 6 hours ago
Finished 6 hours ago (took 1 minute, 18.5 seconds)

@Brian

System can boot to Ubuntu desktop after installing following packages.

grub2-common_2.02_beta2-36ubuntu3.15_amd64.deb
grub-efi-amd64_2.02_beta2-36ubuntu3.15_amd64.deb
grub-efi-amd64-signed_1.66.15+2.02_beta2-36ubuntu3.15_amd64.deb
grub-common_2.02_beta2-36ubuntu3.15_amd64.deb
grub-efi-amd64-bin_2.02_beta2-36ubuntu3.15_amd64.deb
From:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.15/+build/13848315
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed/1.66.15/+build/13848452

Marking bionic Fix Released; Steve uploaded a debian-installer, which was built against the new grub.

Hello Ivan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted debian-installer into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/20101020ubuntu451.18 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I have verified the debian-installer and grub packages, and they do fix the problem for xenial.

This bug was fixed in the package debian-installer - 20101020ubuntu451.18

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debian-installer (20101020ubuntu451.18) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild against grub2 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.15 patched for EFI timers
    fixes. (LP: #1734278)

debian-installer (20101020ubuntu451.17) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Bump FLOPPY_SIZE on amd64, i386, and powerpc for linux-firmware growth.

debian-installer (20101020ubuntu451.16) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Steve Langasek ]
  * Adjust the Vcs-Bzr target for SRUs.

  [ Adam Conrad ]
  * Move master kernels to 4.4.0-101.
  * Move hwe kernels to 4.10.0-40.

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:50:48 -0500

The verification of the Stable Release Update for debian-installer has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.15

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grub2 (2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.15) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Ike Panhc ]
  * Fix grub crash when exit on arm64-platform. (LP: #1731241)

  [ Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre ]
  * Cherry-pick upstream patch to change the default TSC calibration method
    to pmtimer on EFI systems (LP: #1734278)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:25:22 -0500

Hello Ivan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted grub2 into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-artful to verification-done-artful. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-artful. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Ivan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted grub2-signed into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2-signed/1.85.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-artful to verification-done-artful. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-artful. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

As a part of the Stable Release Updates quality process a search for Launchpad bug reports using the version of grub2 from artful-proposed was performed and bug 1744874 was found. Please investigate this bug report to ensure that a regression will not be created by this SRU. In the event that this is not a regression remove the "verification-failed" tag from this bug report and add the tag "bot-stop-nagging" to bug 1744874 (not this bug). Thanks!

As a part of the Stable Release Updates quality process a search for Launchpad bug reports using the version of grub2-signed from artful-proposed was performed and bug 1746133 was found. Please investigate that bug report to ensure that a regression will not be created by this SRU. In the event that this is not a regression remove the "verification-failed" tag from this bug report and add the tag "bot-stop-nagging" to bug 1746133 (not this bug). Thanks!

The bugs identified above are not regressions from this SRU, but recurring issues due to bad configurations (broken install, plymouth --ping bug).

This fix for grub2-signed was already uploaded to bionic -- along with the grub2 upload.

As a part of the Stable Release Updates quality process a search for Launchpad bug reports using the version of grub2 from artful-proposed was performed and bug 1745221 was found. Please investigate this bug report to ensure that a regression will not be created by this SRU. In the event that this is not a regression remove the "verification-failed" tag from this bug report and add the tag "bot-stop-nagging" to bug 1745221 (not this bug). Thanks!

Can anyone help testing this fix for timers on Intel, for artful?

Grub works correctly in all the cases I tested as regression testing for this SRU, but I /do not/ have access to any of the affected hardware, so I cannot verify this fix.

System can boot to Ubuntu desktop (artful) after installing following packages.

Installed packages:
grub2-common_2.02_beta3-4ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb
grub-common_2.02_beta3-4ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb
grub-efi-amd64_2.02_beta3-4ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb
grub-efi-amd64-bin_2.02_beta3-4ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb
grub-efi-amd64-signed_1.85.1+2.02_beta3-4ubuntu7.1_amd64.deb
Image: ubuntu-17.10-desktop-amd64.iso

This bug was fixed in the package grub2-signed - 1.85.1

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grub2-signed (1.85.1) artful; urgency=medium

  * Rebuild against grub2 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1. (LP: #1734278, #1708245)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:36:57 -0500

This bug was fixed in the package grub2 - 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1

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grub2 (2.02~beta3-4ubuntu7.1) artful; urgency=medium

  * Cherry-pick upstream patch to change the default TSC calibration method
    to pmtimer on EFI systems (LP: #1734278)
  * util/grub-install.c: Use fallback and MokManager EFI binary names without
    the .signed extension now that shim handles signing via sbsigntool
    natively. (LP: #1708245)
    - debian/patches/grub-install-extra-removable.patch
    - debian/patches/install_signed.patch

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Jan 2018 11:51:20 -0500

This bug was fixed in the package grub2-signed - 1.167~16.04.1

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grub2-signed (1.167~16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Use debhelper-compat 9 for ease of SRUs to Bionic and earlier. LP:
    #1920008

grub2-signed (1.167~16.04.0) xenial; urgency=medium

  * grub-efi-amd64-signed: add depends on grub2-common with support for
    R_X86_64_PLT32 relocations. LP: #1920008

 -- Dimitri John Ledkov <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:01:58 +0000