Grub stopped EFI-booting for me on LMDE

[pda]

After an initially-successful install, I added a bunch of additional packages and somehow ended up in this odd situation. While I can boot the system externally using rEFInd, I've not been able to get grub back in working order, even after the usual "apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64", grub-install, etc.

What happens when attempting to boot from my SSD is I get a crash and stack trace. I'm suspecting /boot/efi/EFI/linuxmint/grubx64.efi -- can anyone explain where it comes from? It doesn't appear to belong to any packages, so I'm guessing grub creates it somehow.

[kukamuumuka]

How about if you remove rEFInd?
http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/

[pda]

I'm currently only using rEFInd from a USB stick, but given that, and seeing other reports of its success -- looks like I'll end up putting on my SSD to boot from there. The only other option I can see is re-installing from scratch. The only value to that might be that I could watch more closely to see where things went wrong, but I'm not really desperate enough to find the answer to that.

[kukamuumuka]

I'm currently only using rEFInd from a USB stick, but given that, and seeing other reports of its success -- looks like I'll end up putting on my SSD to boot from there. The only other option I can see is re-installing from scratch. The only value to that might be that I could watch more closely to see where things went wrong, but I'm not really desperate enough to find the answer to that.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair

[pda]

Thanks, yes, I knew of boot-repair as well, and have now had a chance to try it... unfortunately my problem is not solved, although this tool does start out looking oh-so-promising. Very impressive that it found all my filesystems, even though everything except /boot is on logical volumes. I'm suspecting now that the grub coming with the distro works well, but that some upgrade afterwards breaks things. I'll report back if I gt to the bottom of it.

[pda]

Perhaps not solved in the ideal fashion... giving up on grub in favour of refind did the trick for me.

I'm thinking this may warrant a bug against debian, and I'll keep a much closer eye on grub when I'm building another similar system in the near future.