Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg in centos8

2019-12-27 Thread Peter
On 28/12/19 2:48 am, Mauricio Tavares wrote: With that said, if that is the case, why would the alias /etc/grub2.cfg still be created if it points to a non-existing file? Wouldn't it make sense for it to just either not to be there at all or point to the efi one? I can make arguments for both si

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg in centos8

2019-12-27 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 27, 2019, at 08:48, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > Right you are. I have to say sometimes I wonder if running EFI > in this system (200GB boot drive I am using 10G of it) makes sense. Other than the small amount of space that the UEFI volume uses, you should consider using uefi everywh

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg in centos8

2019-12-27 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 7:04 AM Eddie O'Connor wrote: > > Wouldn't a "find grub / find grub*"or "locate grub / locate grub*" > work?... > locate would require to install that package and run updatedb first. But, it would save time looking for files that have been already added to its db,

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg in centos8

2019-12-27 Thread Eddie O'Connor
Wouldn't a "find grub / find grub*"or "locate grub / locate grub*" work?... On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 6:57 AM Peter wrote: > On 27/12/19 7:36 pm, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > > Le 27/12/2019 à 04:11, Mauricio Tavares a écrit : > >> Why is it not there? FYI, I did try 'yum reinstall grub2' and no > >

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg in centos8

2019-12-27 Thread Peter
On 27/12/19 7:36 pm, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Le 27/12/2019 à 04:11, Mauricio Tavares a écrit : Why is it not there?  FYI, I did try 'yum reinstall grub2' and no /boot/grub2/grub.cfg for me. You're probably on an EFI system, and your grub.cfg is in a different location. Can't remember it off the

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg in centos8

2019-12-26 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 27/12/2019 à 04:11, Mauricio Tavares a écrit : Why is it not there? FYI, I did try 'yum reinstall grub2' and no /boot/grub2/grub.cfg for me. You're probably on an EFI system, and your grub.cfg is in a different location. Can't remember it off the top of my head, but do # find /boot -name

[CentOS] The case of the missing /boot/grub2/grub.cfg in centos8

2019-12-26 Thread Mauricio Tavares
So I installed centos8. And I was looking for the grub config file: [root@testbox ~]# ls -l /etc/grub2.cfg lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Oct 2 13:01 /etc/grub2.cfg -> ../boot/grub2/grub.cfg [root@testbox ~]# But [root@testbox ~]# ls /boot/grub2/ grubenv [root@testbox ~]# Why is it not there? FYI