normal/main: Discover the device to read the config from as a fallback
authorJavier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Mon, 9 Jan 2023 23:30:44 +0000 (18:30 -0500)
committerMiao Wang <shankerwangmiao@gmail.com>
Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:50:20 +0000 (13:50 +0000)
commit053b6812e6203edcc25814f1fac067c37bd524eb
treeb0ba096c77f92f323a11ade05edd055e929563bc
parent9f4e54ba5a4d43d7ddf05c99b5d0155cba613fbc
normal/main: Discover the device to read the config from as a fallback

When core.img is generated locally, the grub2-probe tool figures out the
device and partition that needs to be read to parse the GRUB
configuration file.

But in some cases the core.img can't be generated on the host and
instead has to be done at package build time.  In particular, this will
be true when it needs to be signed with a key that's only available on
the package building infrastructure.

In that case, the prefix variable won't have a device and partition but
only a directory path.  So there's no way for GRUB to know from which
device has to read the configuration file.

To allow GRUB to continue working on that scenario, fallback to
iterating over all the available devices if reading the config failed
when using the prefix and fw_path variables.

Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Co-authored-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robbie Harwood <rharwood@redhat.com>
Gbp-Pq: Topic network
Gbp-Pq: Name discover-the-device-to-read-the-config-from-as-fallback.patch
grub-core/normal/main.c