Am Mittwoch, 5. Oktober 2016, 18:08:39 CEST schrieb Dave Plater:
On 05/10/2016 18:03, Michael Melcher wrote:
Hi,
Both Leap 42.1 and 42.2 take efibootmgr from SLE, which is version 0.6.0 with various patches.
Tumbleweed has 0.12 already.
For comparison: Debian Jessy has 0.11, Sid has 14. Version 0.6.0 dates back to 2013 [1] Version 0.12 dates back to at least February 2016 [2] In July 2016 they dropped the preceding 0
Can we have a Version Bump to at least the same Version Factory has? And thus bump the version for SLE too?
Problem: On my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 grub2-install calls efibootmgr which exists with status=8000000000000002
There already exist a couple bug reports for that from fedora, launchpad (ubuntu) and others - although for other devices. These bug reports date back between 2 and 4 years already.
Newer Versions of efibootmgr don't seem to have this issue anymore, as I had successfully installed Tumbleweed, Debian Jessie and Debian Sid on my Surface. Only the version in Leap 42.x got this problem.
Thus updating to a newer version - which has already been tested for a while in Tumbleweed, would not only fix this issue but also add support for other newer devices
Since I can't add a EFI Menu Entry from within the EFI manually I am stuck with an installed Linux that can't be booted.
I could try using a Live USB Key and edit the Grub entries on it to boot the installed Leap, but that could only do as a temp fix.
1: http://linux.dell.com/efibootmgr/ 2: https://github.com/rhinstaller/efibootmgr/commits/master/Make.version
Kind regards Michael Melcher
You should open a bug, 42.2 is only accepting bugfixes. Dave P
Of course I could open a bug report for this (and probably will). However, it should be considered to do a version bump anyway. 1: Tumbleweed has version 0.12 for months already, thus that version has been tested for a while. 2: Version 0.6 is over 3 years old. Fixing bugs that have already been fixed years ago just takes valuable developer resources that could be spent on maintaining the current version. 3: Not only would openSuse users profit from it on newer hardware, but also SLE users if that version bump makes it into SLE for one of the next Service Packs. Also on the only Bugfixes Topic: Just 2 weeks ago Plasma has been bumped in Beta 2 to 5.8.0 Beta. Quoting Ludwig Nussel on the topic "Since Plasma 5.8 is still a beta version it deserves more attention and thorough testing now." As far as I can see from the Tumbleweed announcements on this list Plasma 5.8 hasn't made it into Tumbleweed yet, as DimStar wrote on September 30. "KDE Plasma 5.8 is being prepared. We hope for a timely integration". Thus it was untested completely before it got into 42.2 (or am I missing something here?) So IMHO, if a Desktop System can be updated to the latest Beta, which was just released a couple days before it got included in 42.2, something core relevant like efibootmgr could be updated as well, especially since the requested bump has been tested for months already in Tumbleweed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org