Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-20 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/20/2015 01:55 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> ok, I got a new kernel today, 8-300 . so I copied the grub.cfg to >> grub.8-300 and did another grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and >> the new grub.cfg is different that what the system made after it >> installed the new kernel.. I am not sure

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-20 Thread Chris Murphy
The diff isn't that useful because the old and new grub.cfgs are too different. They're different because grub.cfg is modified by grubby rather than being created from scratch everytime there's a new kernel install. So the more kernels are installed, the more different the grub.cfg becomes since gr

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/19/2015 04:52 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: ok, I got a new kernel today, 8-300 . so I copied the grub.cfg to grub.8-300 and did another grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and the new grub.cfg is different that what the system made after it installed the new kernel.. I am not sure what the

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/19/2015 03:39 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> Please use "diff -u". Standard diff format is mostly unreadable. >> Unified diff is much more comprehensible. > > ... and maybe output to a file and attach that file. Your client is > wrapping lines, making it hard to read the output. diff -u at

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/19/2015 12:37 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Please use "diff -u". Standard diff format is mostly unreadable. Unified diff is much more comprehensible. ... and maybe output to a file and attach that file. Your client is wrapping lines, making it hard to read the output. -- users mailing li

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/19/2015 04:52 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: [root@pauls-server grub2]# diff grub.8-300 grub.cfg diff grub.8-300 grub.cfg Please use "diff -u". Standard diff format is mostly unreadable. Unified diff is much more comprehensible. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/12/2015 10:47 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/12/2015 03:43 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> rebooted and... a blinking cursor on a black background.. >> this seems to happen everytime now when I get a new kernel in F22 > > Next time you update, save a copy of /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, >

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/12/2015 11:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Paul Cartwright > wrote: > >> problem is, only a blinking cursor, no grub menu.. that's my problem. >> I know how to edit grub menus using e.. since I have multiple ( mostly >> linux) OSes, grub gets updated every now

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-13 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/12/2015 10:47 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 07/12/2015 03:43 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: >> rebooted and... a blinking cursor on a black background.. >> this seems to happen everytime now when I get a new kernel in F22 > > Next time you update, save a copy of /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, >

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > problem is, only a blinking cursor, no grub menu.. that's my problem. > I know how to edit grub menus using e.. since I have multiple ( mostly > linux) OSes, grub gets updated every now & then, and I use "e" to make > sure I am booting th

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/12/2015 03:43 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: rebooted and... a blinking cursor on a black background.. this seems to happen everytime now when I get a new kernel in F22 Next time you update, save a copy of /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg, then run "grub2-mkconfig". You can compare them to se

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/12/2015 10:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Paul Cartwright > wrote: >> I did a dnf update, got the new kernel, >> uname -a >> Linux pauls-server 4.0.7-300.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 29 22:15:06 UTC >> 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> >> rebooted and...

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 4:43 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I did a dnf update, got the new kernel, > uname -a > Linux pauls-server 4.0.7-300.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 29 22:15:06 UTC > 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > rebooted and... a blinking cursor on a black background.. > this seems

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 07/12/2015 09:45 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > If you press CTRL-ALT-F2, do you get a text console login prompt? Can > you ssh to the machine? I will have to check that next time.. I am back up now, with a useable grub. > > If you can get access to the machine through one of these methods, > then look

Re: rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Greg Woods
If you press CTRL-ALT-F2, do you get a text console login prompt? Can you ssh to the machine? If you can get access to the machine through one of these methods, then look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors. This sounds like a video driver/configuration problem. --Greg On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 4:4

rebooting with new kernel

2015-07-12 Thread Paul Cartwright
I did a dnf update, got the new kernel, uname -a Linux pauls-server 4.0.7-300.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 29 22:15:06 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux rebooted and... a blinking cursor on a black background.. this seems to happen everytime now when I get a new kernel in F22, x86_64. So I bo