On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:21 PM Todd Zullinger <t...@pobox.com> wrote: > > 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.
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 any point from Fedora 21 and newer you ever did a 'grub2-install' you won't hit it. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
