Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-22 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 8:26 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > [...] > I have checked/rechecked three times: > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg with flag "--root-dev-only": grub goes to > prompt, $prefix is obviously not set. > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg wi

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 21.04.24 um 18:34 schrieb Go Canes: On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg: search --no-floppy --root-dev-only --fs-uuid --set=dev 206c0b5f-eddf-42e8-96f1-e666c5635cd0 set prefix=($dev)/grub2 export $prefix

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Felix Miata
Klaus-Peter Schrage composed on 2024-04-21 18:15 (UTC+0200): ... It really doesn't take much to load a kernel and initrd. All my EFI PCs have only one Grub installation, even though there are upwards of 12 distros installed on each PC, no VMs. One of the latest updated hosts this: menuentry "Fed

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > > Am 20.04.24 um 23:16 schrieb George N. White III: > > I assume you can still boot with manual grub commands. > Yes, linux ..., initrd ..., boot > or: >configfile (hd0,1)/grub2/grub.cfg > which immediately brings back the gru

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 20.04.24 um 23:16 schrieb George N. White III: I assume you can still boot with manual grub commands. Yes, linux ..., initrd ..., boot or: >configfile (hd0,1)/grub2/grub.cfg which immediately brings back the grub menu. Retrace your steps and double check UUID's, other typos, and misplaced q

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Tim via users
Joe Zeff: >> In all the years I've been using Linux, I've never yet run across a .pdf >> file that Linux's default viewer couldn't read. What is it about those >> files that requires Windows to read? George N. White III: > a) fillable forms that explicitly say they must be completed using Windows

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 6:43 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/20/2024 03:16 PM, George N. White III wrote: > > In preparation for converting my dual boot Win10+Fedora system > > to Fedora only, I needed to expand the Win11 partition on another > > dual boot system because some "mission critical" Adobe

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/20/2024 03:16 PM, George N. White III wrote: In preparation for converting my dual boot Win10+Fedora system to Fedora only, I needed to expand the Win11 partition on another dual boot system because some "mission critical" Adobe PDF documents require Windows. In all the years I've been us

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:48 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my > harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were > scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt). I was a

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Bryan
new broom sweeps clean I guess - data is all there so lash on On 20/04/2024 20:14, Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: Am 20. April 2024 20:51:04 MESZ schrieb Lester Petrie : On 4/20/2024 1:14 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: I am really grateful for your detailed expl

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 20. April 2024 20:51:04 MESZ schrieb Lester Petrie : > > >On 4/20/2024 1:14 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: >> I am really grateful for your detailed explanation! >> I went through all the steps, checked the IDs from efibootmgr and blkid >> with respect to the various configuration fi

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Lester Petrie
On 4/20/2024 1:14 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: I am really grateful for your detailed explanation! I went through all the steps, checked the IDs from efibootmgr and blkid with respect to the various configuration files - and found no mismatch, but again I ended up with the grub prom

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 19.04.24 um 16:58 schrieb Go Canes: The basic process is EFI is using its variables (which you can examine with efibootmgr) to find a device and the file on the device to use for the boot. That should be on the *.efi files in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/. That in term should load grub2, which will

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Go Canes
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:31 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > But, as Felix had proposed in his post, I dived a bit deeper into > efibootmgr (also new to me up to know), and found out that entries point > to PARTUUIDs, in my case: > FedoraHD(3,GPT,1ca6f5eb-cbea-11e9-a525-4ccc6ad8789c,0x24

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 17.04.24 um 18:45 schrieb Felix Miata: Klaus-Peter Schrage via users composed on 2024-04-17 16:48 (UTC+0200): After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt).

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 17.04.24 um 17:51 schrieb Go Canes: Step by step: I recently had similar problems. These are the things to check: o use blkid to get the current UUID(s) The current UUIDs correspond to the ones in /etc/fstab, that hadn't been changed btw. o check /etc/kernel/cmdline if it exists - make sure

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:42 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > I faintly remembered the dracut thing, so I tried that first - but it > didn't help. If the other problems aren't resolved, rebuilding initramfs probably won't help. > I will look into the UUID stuff tomorrow, although I had

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Felix Miata
Klaus-Peter Schrage via users composed on 2024-04-17 16:48 (UTC+0200): > After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my > harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were > scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt). I was able to free a third > harddisk (

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Thanks for your quick reply! I faintly remembered the dracut thing, so I tried that first - but it didn't help. I will look into the UUID stuff tomorrow, although I had already checked that gparted really did not change UUIDs when  moving partitions around. And as I said, I can get into Fedora a

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > But rebooting still gets me to the dreaded grub>. > So what am I missing? > BTW, I did NOT use the grub2-install command which shoud not be used on > UEFI systems. I recently had similar problems. These are the things to che

Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt). I was able to free a third harddisk (ssd) and copied the linux partitions boot, root and home over to the new disk,