grub won't read alternate drive

[DILL]

I'm having troubles with a fresh install of Proxmox (on a debian install), where I can't get grub (2.06-13+pmx5) to read alternate drives.

I had issues early with grub getting stuck on "Welcome to GRUB" earlier, after installing proxmox kernel, but grub-install in rescue mode fixed that.

When I do ls (hd4,gpt2) the cursor just hangs and never returns.

Interestingly, when I did this on 2.06-13+pmx3 I have no such issues.

 

[fabian]

what do you mean with "alternate drive"?

 

[DILL]

"Alternative drive" - A NTFS formatted drive/partition (with an EFI stub), separate from my primary proxmox drive and partitions.

When fully booted into proxmox, I can mount the partition without issue.

Grub sees the partition/drive exists, it just hangs when trying to read it.

 

[fabian]

this is a known regression in the last set of CVE updates for Grub (affecting NTFS partitions only), it will be fixed by the next update.

 

[DILL]

Thanks for the confirmation that this is a known regression.

For my sanity, and so I have something to report to my colleagues, is there a timeline when can I expect an update to be released?

 

[fabian]

it should likely be on pvetest before the end of the week, or maybe on Monday, unless we find some problem with the fix internally.