Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread Rich Emberson
This morning I got the dreaded grub prompt on boot. Took me 3 hours to understand what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_populated_after_an_upgrade was talking about. I did a bunch of searching and trying things out before I hit upon the configfile grub command.

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread David Dusanic
Am 01.05.19 um 00:03 schrieb Chris Murphy: Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:10 AM Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 5/1/19 8:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> It happens if the most recent 'grub2-install' happened with a Fedora >> 20 or older GRUB package. e.g. if you installed Fedora 20 clean, then >> did an OS upgrade every 6-12 months all the way throug

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:19 PM Charles R. Dennett wrote: > On 5/1/19 11:07 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48 PM Charles R. Dennett >> wrote: >>> >>> Is there any way to tell just by looking for the presence or absence >>> of any particular file or directory that you would run into

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 5/1/19 8:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It happens if the most recent 'grub2-install' happened with a Fedora 20 or older GRUB package. e.g. if you installed Fedora 20 clean, then did an OS upgrade every 6-12 months all the way through to Fedora 30, then you'd probably run into this bug. But if at

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Charles R. Dennett
On 5/1/19 11:07 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48 PM Charles R. Dennett wrote: >> >> Is there any way to tell just by looking for the presence or absence >> of any particular file or directory that you would run into this >> bug? > > Unless you're multi-booting and grub's managed

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48 PM Charles R. Dennett wrote: > On 5/1/19 5:25 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:21 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: >>> >>> What I took from the prior wording is that if you installed Fedora >>> 20 or earlier and then only updated the OS since (and had not >>> manu

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Charles R. Dennett
On 5/1/19 5:25 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:21 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: >> >> What I took from the prior wording is that if you installed Fedora >> 20 or earlier and then only updated the OS since (and had not >> manually run grub2-update), that you would hit this bug. > > "grub2

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:21 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: > > What I took from the prior wording is that if you installed Fedora > 20 or earlier and then only updated the OS since (and had not > manually run grub2-update), that you would hit this bug. "grub2-install" not "grub2-update". __

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 2:49 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how >>> common it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmw

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:21 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >>> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > >>> it i

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris Murphy writes: On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > > it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that > > origi

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common >>> it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that >>> ori

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > > it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that > > originally had Fedora 20 or o

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that > originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had > 'grub2-install' issued since then.

GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Chris Murphy
Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can be prevented just by running 'grub2-install'