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)
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Sun, 2 Nov 2025 11:08:11 +0000 (12:08 +0100)
commit182e45a8e6bbf93419cd956deeeb8255ba49d1ea
tree1372b0dca712b923dcd9f1d8b4795bb82651bf83
parent5ce43ebb4c0219fc36deee463dd38c8e6adacee5
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