Cannot boot Kernels without Kernels EFI Handover Support

[sges]

THe New Arch Kernel 6.2.1 is Built without CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL (which is deprecated in the mainline) and thus cannot be booted with this grub2.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: grub-efi-amd64 2.06-2ubuntu14.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.19.0-35.36~22.04.1-generic 5.19.17
Uname: Linux 5.19.0-35-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 3 22:31:37 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-26 (2441 days ago)
InstallationMedia: It
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2-unsigned
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-05-25 (282 days ago)

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

That is expected yes and there isn't anything we can do about this for the foreseeable future. Please boot arch using arch grub.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This is not Ubuntu specific, all big distros use the handover protocol and also enterprise distributions will likely have to continue to do so for the foreseeable future due to external obligations that I can't go into further detail about.

[sges (sges)]

I eventually switched to the Arch linux-lts kernel package that still supports CONFIG_EFI_HANDOVER_PROTOCOL

[Jean-Alexandre Anglès d'Auriac (jagw40k)]

Since version 6.2.2.arch2-1, the Arch kernel package support booting from Ubuntu's version of Grub again \o/.
Loqs in Archlinux forums mentioned a solution to try Loadfile2 first and then fall back to the legacy protocol: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2088252#p2088252 but it is not a big priority since the Kernel option should stay available for quite some time I guess?

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This is fixed in our grub 2.12 builds. They will roll out to stable releases after the 24.04 release.