Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallag...@gmail.com> 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 older installed and also never had
>>> 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can be prevented just
>>> by running 'grub2-install' before commencing the Fedora 30 upgrade.
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_populated_after_an_upgrade
>>>
>>> It's worth going through all the Common Bugs.
>>
>> The text actually says:
>>
>>    So if you have an installation that has been updated since Fedora 20
>>    or before, it is recommended to execute the grub2-install command
>>    before doing a system upgrade.
>>
>> I assume that should say "... if you have an installation that has NOT
>> been updated since Fedora 20 or before ..."
> 
> Good catch. I fixed that, and made a few other clean ups, let me know
> if you spot any other problems.

I thing it was correct before, but perhaps it could still be
improved.  (Obviously, the wording isn't as clear as it can
be or we wouldn't be having this conversation. ;)

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.

-- 
Todd

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