On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:18:28 -0400, Sam wrote:
> AFAIK installing a kernel should involve merely updating
> /boot/grub/grub.conf. I can't think of any reason why GRUB's stage files
> have to be involved. The script that updates it, /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
> invokes /sbin/grubby, apparently, to do
JB gmail.com> writes:
> ...
Additional info.
$ cat /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub
...
# Ensure grub will load the correct kernel on resume from hibernate,
...
echo "savedefault --default=${current} --once" | \
/sbin/grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map \
Michael Schwendt writes:
My theory is that if the MBR is unmodified when the problem is encountered,
something may have moved GRUB's stage* files in a way it couldn't find
them anymore in their previous location. Then it would load and execute
unexpected garbage. Since the boot record doesn't c
Steve Blackwell writes:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:14:48 +0300
Gilboa Davara wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets
> installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every
> thirty or so ke
Sam Varshavchik courier-mta.com> writes:
>
> Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed.
> It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel
> updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot.
>
> This is just a minor annoyan
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:48:09 -0400, Tom wrote:
> I have seen this quite often following the first kernel update after a
> Fedora version update. I.e., the machine boots fine after the version
> update, but needs re-grubbing after 'yum update'.
Have you kept a yum.log for that? Then, for example,
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 10:25 -0400, Steve Blackwell wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:14:48 +0300
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets
> > > installed. It doesn't happen every ti
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:25:05 -0400, Steve wrote:
> I've had this happen to me too. My theory has been that either it has
> nothing to do with Fedora at all and it is a BIOS problem or that the
> grub device.map file gets reversed somehow.
The device.map file isn't needed for booting. Plus, if it
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:14:48 +0300
Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets
> > installed. It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every
> > thirty or so kernel updates, grub f
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:29:54 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed.
>It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel
>updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot.
>
>This is just a minor
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:10:11 -0400, Sam wrote:
> > And from those, who are hit by it occasionally, nobody attempts at
> > debugging it or collecting all the info. Dunno whether the root cause of
> > the problem is known by anyone.
>
> I think that's because nobody really knows how to debug it. At
2010-08-25 13:10, Sam Varshavchik skrev:
> Michael Schwendt writes:
>
> If there are instructions, somewhere, for saving not just the MBR, but
> everything that gets touched by /sbin/grub-install (since it's always
> what fixes things), then I'll be sure to collect and save it the next
> time this
Michael Schwendt writes:
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:29:54 -0400, Sam wrote:
Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed.
It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel
updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot.
This is
Gilboa Davara writes:
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed.
It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel
updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot.
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:29:54 -0400, Sam wrote:
> Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed.
> It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel
> updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot.
>
> This is just a minor annoy
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:29 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed.
> It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel
> updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot.
>
> This is just a m
Every once in a while, something breaks when a kernel update gets installed.
It doesn't happen every time, I'd say that once in every thirty or so kernel
updates, grub fails to come up after a subsequent reboot.
This is just a minor annoyance -- I'd have to boot the install CD in rescue
mode,
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