[bug #67078] 2.12: EFI: loading initrd.img fails with kernel panic

Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> Sat, 3 May 2025 11:14:29 -0400 (EDT)

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                 Summary: 2.12: EFI: loading initrd.img fails with kernel
panic
                   Group: GNU GRUB
               Submitter: perkelix
               Submitted: Sat 03 May 2025 03:14:25 PM GMT
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: other
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         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None


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Date: Sat 03 May 2025 03:14:25 PM GMT By: Martin-Éric Racine <perkelix>
A regression since GRUB 2.06:

On Debian, after upgrading GRUB-EFI from 2.06 to 2.12 (dist-upgrade from
Bookworm to Trixie), loading initrd.img fails with a kernel panic. Reverting
grub* packages to 2.06 restores normal booting.

As a further test, I've tried booting with different Debian rescue media off
USB.

1) Booting with debian-installer Bookworm (GRUB 2.06, Linux 6.1) off a USB
stick works fine in both BIOS and EFI mode.

1) Booting with debian-installer Trixie (GRUB 2.12, Linux 6.12) off a USB
stick works fine in BIOS mode, but gets the same kernel panic as above in EFI
mode.

Hardware: ASUS P8H61, BIOS 4306 09/22/2013

The firmware version is the latest for this motherboard.







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