Grub removes EFI entries on update

[Nazar Mokrynskyi]

I have custom EFI entry, but I need to add it back after every Grub update, because Grub removes all existing entries, and adds new ones (sometimes twice).
Please, fix this annoying issue, I'm tired to restore entries every time.

Looks like issue similar to http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-grub-devel/2013-May/013508.html

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

As it says at the top of grub.cfg, you are not meant to edit it directly. Add custom entries to /etc/grub.d/40_custom.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

I didn't edit grub.cfg!!!
I've edited EFI entry with efibootmgr.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Please be more specific about what this entry looks like and how you added it. Perhaps show the output of efibootmgr just before and after upgrading or reinstalling grub-efi.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

nazar-pc@nazar-pc:~$ sudo efibootmgr -v
[sudo] password for nazar-pc:
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0002,0001
Boot0001* ubuntu HD(2,6618000,64000,a0c38a24-0cae-44ce-979d-3ce5d302c72a)File(\EFI\Ubuntu\grubx64.efi)
Boot0002* Ubuntu (EFI stub) HD(2,6618000,64000,a0c38a24-0cae-44ce-979d-3ce5d302c72a)File(\EFI\ubuntu_efi_stub\bootx64.efi)r.o.o.t.=.U.U.I.D.=.5.9.4.3.0.d.1.7.-.e.4.9.1.-.4.f.6.f.-.a.b.9.a.-.8.2.c.9.2.8.8.9.3.1.7.c. .r.o. .q.u.i.e.t. .s.p.l.a.s.h. .i.n.i.t.r.d.=./.e.f.i./.u.b.u.n.t.u._.e.f.i._.s.t.u.b./.i.n.i.t.r.d...i.m.g...
nazar-pc@nazar-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall grub-e
grub-efi grub-efi-amd64 grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-dbg grub-efi-amd64-signed grub-efi-ia32 grub-efi-ia32-bin grub-efi-ia32-dbg grub-emu grub-emu-dbg
nazar-pc@nazar-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64
Зчитування переліків пакунків... Виконано
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оновлено 0, встановлено 0 нових, 1 перевстановлено, 0 відмічено для видалення і 1 не оновлено.
Необхідно завантажити 0 B/44,7 kB архівів.
Після цієї операції об'єм зайнятого дискового простору зросте на 0 B.
Передналаштування пакунків...
(Читання бази даних ... на дану мить встановлено 159230 файлів та каталогів.)
Preparing to unpack .../grub-efi-amd64_2.02~beta2-7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-7) over (2.02~beta2-7) ...
Налаштовування grub-efi-amd64 (2.02~beta2-7) ...
Встановлюємо для платформи x86_64-efi.
Встановлення завершено. Помилок не виявлено.
Створюємо файл налаштувань grub...
Виявлено образ linux: /boot/vmlinuz-3.14.0-rc6-haswell
Виявлено образ initrd: /boot/initrd.img-3.14.0-rc6-haswell
Виявлено образ linux: /boot/vmlinuz-3.14.0-rc5-haswell
Виявлено образ initrd: /boot/initrd.img-3.14.0-rc5-haswell
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
виконано
nazar-pc@nazar-pc:~$ sudo efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0002
Boot0000* ubuntu HD(2,6618000,64000,a0c38a24-0cae-44ce-979d-3ce5d302c72a)File(\EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi)
nazar-pc@nazar-pc:~$ sudo efibootmgr -c -L "Ubuntu (EFI stub)" -l "\EFI\ubuntu_efi_stub\bootx64.efi" -d /dev/sda -p 2 -u "root=UUID=59430d17-e491-4f6f-ab9a-82c92889317c ro quiet splash initrd=/efi/ubuntu_efi_stub/initrd.img"
BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,0000,0002
Boot0000* ubuntu
Boot0001* Ubuntu (EFI stub)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Thank you, that shows the problem clearly.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

Is it that difficult to fix?
I'm tired to restore records after each update.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

Just add check whether ubuntu is already present in list or remove this action completely if package is not just installed (ignore for upgrades).

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

Bug was confirmed a long time ago and still happens.

[Nazar Mokrynskyi (nazar-pc)]

A one year old confirmed bug, can you fix this before 15.04 release at least? This breaks many configurations with manually configured EFI entries

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for grub2 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]