Re: Grub2 missing file

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 10:06 -0400, Go Canes wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 7:06 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get: > > > > # grub2-install > > grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn'

Re: Grub2 missing file

2024-07-30 Thread Go Canes
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 7:06 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get: > > # grub2-install > grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. > Please specify --target or --directory. > > I do have a modinfo

Re: Grub2 missing file

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 08:05 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 7:12 AM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 12:06 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get: > > > &g

Re: Grub2 missing file

2024-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 7:12 AM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 12:06 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get: > > > > # grub2-install > > grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modi

Re: Grub2 missing file

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 12:06 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get: > > # grub2-install > grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't > exist. Please specify --target or --directory. > > I do have a

Grub2 missing file

2024-07-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
Attempting to run grub2-install, but I get: # grub2-install grub2-install: error: /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please specify --target or --directory. I do have a modinfo.sh for i32, but not for x86_64. poc -- ___

Re: Fedora39: grub2 with software raid and kernel command line options

2024-07-30 Thread Terry Barnaby
an older version. We have an issue in that the kernels appear to require the command line option "rd.auto" for the older systems to boot with the rootfs using software raid. When we use grub2-mkconfig (or update a kernel which I guess also uses this) the produced /boot/grub2/gru

Re: Fedora39: grub2 with software raid and kernel command line options

2024-07-28 Thread Samuel Sieb
that the kernels appear to require the command line option "rd.auto" for the older systems to boot with the rootfs using software raid. When we use grub2-mkconfig (or update a kernel which I guess also uses this) the produced /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file does not have "rd.auto

Fedora39: grub2 with software raid and kernel command line options

2024-07-28 Thread Terry Barnaby
command line option "rd.auto" for the older systems to boot with the rootfs using software raid. When we use grub2-mkconfig (or update a kernel which I guess also uses this) the produced /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file does not have "rd.auto" in the kernel command line and so the old

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-05 Thread Tim via users
On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 13:37 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > Sorry for all this mail exchanges for a simple thing. Multi-boot isn't a simple thing, there's a lot of hurdles. If you needed to ask, you needed to ask. That's what the list is for. -- NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbo

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-05 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
booting. > The most recently installed Fedora bootloader will be the one whose ESP entry > in > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/ is in control of UEFI booting. > > Please boot in UEFI mode, then gather and provide here output from: OK, I see By default, I was not using UEFI to boot. It means that I us

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-05 Thread Felix Miata
Patrick Dupre composed on 2024-06-04 23:57 (UTC+0200): > Disklabel type: gpt > Disk identifier: 5975BF99-78B4-4807-9CE4-C2BB0B8FE075 > > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > /dev/sda1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot > /dev/sda2 6144 33560575 335544321

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-05 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> On 6/5/24 1:04 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > Samuel S said > > > >> Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > >> 2 1049kB 470MB 469MB primary ext4 boot > >> 3 470MB 25.4GB 24.9GB primary ext4 > >> 4 25.4GB 82.0GB 56.6GB extended > >> 5 25.4GB 82.0GB 56.6GB logical ext4 > > > > You

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/5/24 1:04 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Samuel S said Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 2 1049kB 470MB 469MB primary ext4 boot 3 470MB 25.4GB 24.9GB primary ext4 4 25.4GB 82.0GB 56.6GB extended 5 25.4GB 82.0GB 56.6GB logical ext4 You don't have an EFI partition on this di

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-05 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:15:33 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > I guess that when I run grub2-mkconfig there was a UBS key what connected > > on the usb poer. > > > > I made some progresses, but not enough > > I mounted the Fedora 40 / and >

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 22:15:33 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I guess that when I run grub2-mkconfig there was a UBS key what connected on > the usb poer. > > I made some progresses, but not enough > I mounted the Fedora 40 / and > cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entr

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-06-04 15:03 (UTC-0700): > You don't have an EFI partition on this disk. It's not even a GPT > partition table. So both installations will be fighting over the EFI > partition on sda. And there's no easy way to add a boot entry for this > installation. A multiboo

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-06-04 15:03 (UTC-0700): > You don't have an EFI partition on this disk. It's not even a GPT > > partition table. So both installations will be fighting over the EFI > > partition on sda. And there's no easy way to add a boot entry for this > > installation. A mul

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/4/24 2:57 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Model: ATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 82.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End SizeType File system Flags 2 1049kB 470MB 469MB primary ext4

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 5975BF99-78B4-4807-9CE4-C2BB0B8FE075 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sda1 2048 6143 4096 2M BIOS boot /dev/sda2 6144 33560575 3355443216G Linux swap /dev/sda3 33560576 34584575 1024000 500M EFI Sy

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Samuel Sieb composed on 2024-06-04 13:49 (UTC-0700): > Patrick Dupre via users wrote: >> I am maintaining this machine for numerous years, it always passed the >> updates, >> but from 38 to 40, the same approach fails! > You haven't given a full explanation of your disk layout, If you provide

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> On 6/4/24 1:39 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > >> > >> On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > >>> I made some progresses, but not enough > >>> I mounted the Fedora 40 / and > >>> cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries > >>> > >>> cat > >>> /boot/loader/

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> Patrick Dupre via users composed on 2024-06-04 22:15 (UTC+0200): > > > I do not understand, because every thing seems OK > > The file is at the right place as well as > > System.map-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > > initramfs-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64.img > > config-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > > symvers-6.8.1

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Felix Miata
Patrick Dupre via users composed on 2024-06-04 22:15 (UTC+0200): > I do not understand, because every thing seems OK > The file is at the right place as well as > System.map-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > initramfs-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64.img > config-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 > symvers-6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/4/24 1:39 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: I made some progresses, but not enough I mounted the Fedora 40 / and cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries cat /boot/loader/entries/dcdc9ed7e87243ec91d6d876cf7c3384-6.8

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> > On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > I made some progresses, but not enough > > I mounted the Fedora 40 / and > > cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries > > > > cat > > /boot/loader/entries/dcdc9ed7e87243ec91d6d876cf7c3384-6.8.9-100.fc38.x86_64.conf > >

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/4/24 1:15 PM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: I made some progresses, but not enough I mounted the Fedora 40 / and cp -a /mnt/fedrao40/boot/loader/entries/* /boot/loader/entries cat /boot/loader/entries/dcdc9ed7e87243ec91d6d876cf7c3384-6.8.9-100.fc38.x86_64.conf title Fedora Linux (6.8.11-

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> You can run e.g. blkid -U "0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-e6187c589cde" to find > > > out. > > > Or run "blkid" and skim over the output. > > This is sda4 where Fedora 38 is installed (sda4) > > There are two entries! What about the second entry with

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 14:11:22 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:11:03 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > > > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,gpt4 > > > --hint-efi=hd0,gpt4 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,gpt4 > > > 0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 23:36 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > You're supposed to reply to the bits you're responding to, and cut > out > the rest that isn't actually needed.  Unfortunately people are > forgetting this and trying to get an entire thread inside each and > every message. > > If anyone ha

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Barry
> On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:39, Patrick Dupre wrote: > >  > > > On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:11, Patrick Dupre via users > wrote: > > Fedora 38 when I will be sure that I can have control on the full > installation. > The risk is that I lost more control, typically on the installation of sda4 >

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-04 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-06-03 at 15:59 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > With your message we lost the thread. The thread is there. You're not supposed to keep quoting every prior reply when you respond to messages. Messages become huge and unreadable messes. You're supposed to reply to the bits you

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
    On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:11, Patrick Dupre via users wrote:   Fedora 38 when I will be sure that I can have control on the full installation. The risk is that I lost more control, typically on the installation of sda4   The way I test out new Fedora releases is to see if the live image w

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Barry Scott
> On 4 Jun 2024, at 13:11, Patrick Dupre via users > wrote: > > Fedora 38 when I will be sure that I can have control on the full > installation. > The risk is that I lost more control, typically on the installation of sda4 The way I test out new Fedora releases is to see if the live image

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
-80F4 > > What partitions do these two UUIDs refer to? > You can run e.g. blkid -U "0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-e6187c589cde" to find out. > Or run "blkid" and skim over the output. This is sda4 where Fedora 38 is installed (sda4) > > > > This is the fedora 38

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
-U "0ab8c5a6-a344-48f8-afca-e6187c589cde" to find out. Or run "blkid" and skim over the output. > This is the fedora 38 Do you mean you're running F38 and trying to reconfigure Grub2? Or what scenario is it exactly? -- ___

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 362 Jun  4 12:26 11b839ed895a4a55a8ef89bc2dcec102-6.8.8-100.fc38.x86_64.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 362 Jun  4 12:26 11b839ed895a4a55a8ef89bc2dcec102-6.8.9-100.fc38.x86_64.conf     As anticipate no Fedora 40 while grub2-mkconfig says Found Fedora Linux 40 (Forty) on /dev

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:35:37 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > > > but in the generated file (grub.cfg) there is no reference to Fedora 40 > > or sdc3 > > What do you see in the grub2.cfg file section with the "10_linux" header? ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/1

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:35:37 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > but in the generated file (grub.cfg) there is no reference to Fedora 40 > or sdc3 What do you see in the grub2.cfg file section with the "10_linux" header? -- ___ us

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Barry Scott
> On 4 Jun 2024, at 11:35, Patrick Dupre via users > wrote: > > but in the generated file (grub.cfg) there is no reference to Fedora 40 > or sdc3 Fedora use BLS (boot loader specifcations) that are in /boot/loader/entries. grub, by default, scans that folder and adds all the entries to the me

grub2-mkconfig

2024-06-04 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Hello, I am still stuck with my installation. Question Why grub2-mkconfig says Found Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) on /dev/sdb11 Found Fedora Linux 40 (Forty) on /dev/sdc3 Found Fedora Linux 36 (Workstation Edition) on /dev/mapper/VolSys_2-root Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
-directory=/boot/efi/ but this provide an error as indicated in my previous message. sda1 is BIOS boot partition grub2 core.img (I cannot mount it) efibootmgr -v BootCurrent: Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: ,0006,0004,0005,0002,0001 Boot* fedora HD(3,GPT,01dd38df-fda0-487b-add4

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-03 Thread Go Canes
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 3:11 AM Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I updated a fedora 38 installation to 40 (on sdc3) as I used to do. > But this installation is now not visible from the grub bot menu. > I run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > again, and again from both installa

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-03 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2024-06-03 at 13:53 +0200, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: > I wish to add that efibootmgr does not list the sdc3 installation. By default, it'll only show the boot options that installations have entered into it. If your install didn't do that, you can add entries, yourself. Have a look

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
I wish to add that efibootmgr does not list the sdc3 installation. > Subject: Re: grub2-install > > Thank for the feedback, > > Thus, I am going to summarize the situation. > I updated a fedora 38 installation to 40 (on sdc3) as I used to do. > But this installation is now

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Thank for the feedback, Thus, I am going to summarize the situation. I updated a fedora 38 installation to 40 (on sdc3) as I used to do. But this installation is now not visible from the grub bot menu. I run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg again, and again from both installation (40 and 38

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-02 Thread Stephen Morris
On 2/6/24 23:00, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: Hello, There is bug reported about grub2-install 2240994 for a while but no solution are proposed. grub2-install: error: This utility should not be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. If you really wish to

Re: grub2-install

2024-06-02 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/2/24 6:00 AM, Patrick Dupre via users wrote: There is bug reported about grub2-install 2240994 for a while but no solution are proposed. grub2-install: error: This utility should not be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. If you really wish to proceed

grub2-install

2024-06-02 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
Hello, There is bug reported about grub2-install 2240994 for a while but no solution are proposed. grub2-install: error: This utility should not be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. If you really wish to proceed, invoke the --force option. Make sure Secure

multiboot/grub2

2024-06-01 Thread Patrick Dupre via users
root 2960704 Mar 8 01:00 grubia32.efi -rwx--. 1 root root 3968320 Mar 8 01:00 grubx64.efi -rwx--. 1 root root 148 Jun 13 2021 grub.cfg -rwx--. 1 root root1024 Jun 13 2021 grubenv.rpmsave -rwx--. 1 root root 10306 Jul 2 2020 grub.cfg.rpmsave When I run grub2-mkconfig

Re: Grub2 is not updated / grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)

2024-05-04 Thread Javier Perez
I usually keep the old version. From time to time I do a diff check to see if there is something new and research the change. On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 8:06 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM Javier Perez wrote: > >> Don' know. I have been dnf upgrading this system almos

Re: Grub2 is not updated / grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)

2024-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM Javier Perez wrote: > Don' know. I have been dnf upgrading this system almost since Fedora was > simple digits. .🤔 > I am planning a new build for F40 and definitely clean install it. > There are post-upgrade tasks that should be performed to keep the system tidy.

Re: Grub2 is not updated / grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)

2024-05-04 Thread Javier Perez
Don' know. I have been dnf upgrading this system almost since Fedora was simple digits. .🤔 I am planning a new build for F40 and definitely clean install it. On Sat, May 4, 2024, 19:00 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 5/4/24 1:26 AM, Javier Perez wrote: > > Ok, I think I solved it. > > I created the entr

Re: Grub2 is not updated / grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)

2024-05-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 5/4/24 1:26 AM, Javier Perez wrote: Ok, I think I solved it. I created the entry manually for Kernel 6.8.8 on grub.cfg and rebooted. Once in this kernel, I dnf reinstalled it and everything seems to have worked fine. dnf did not show any error and I had journalctl -f on another terminal and

Re: Grub2 is not updated / grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)

2024-05-04 Thread Javier Perez
see this error: > > Running scriptlet: kernel-modules-core-6.8.8-200.fc39.x86_64 > > 49/49 > Running scriptlet: kernel-core-6.8.8-200.fc39.x86_64 > > 49/49 > /usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev > mounted?). > grub2-probe: error

Grub2 is not updated / grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)

2024-05-04 Thread Javier Perez
/usr/sbin/grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). grub2-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). No path or device is specified. Usage: grub2-probe [OPTION...] [OPTION]... [PATH|DEVICE] Try 'grub2-probe --help' or 'grub2-probe --

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/3/24 09:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/21/24 15:06, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/3/24 09:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/20/24 15:30, Stephen Morris wrote: Given that you are indicating that you are booting off a raid environment and hence have Fedora installed on raid, I'm assuming you are usi

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-21 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/21/24 15:06, Stephen Morris wrote: On 21/3/24 09:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/20/24 15:30, Stephen Morris wrote: Given that you are indicating that you are booting off a raid environment and hence have Fedora installed on raid, I'm assuming you are using Fedora server, is that correct? I'm

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 21/3/24 09:38, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 3/20/24 15:30, Stephen Morris wrote: Given that you are indicating that you are booting off a raid environment and hence have Fedora installed on raid, I'm assuming you are using Fedora server, is that correct? I'm just curious because I played around wi

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-20 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Mar 20, 2024, at 20:10, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Stephen Morris writes:. >> >> If I can ask a silly question, given that on UEFI systems grub2-install is >> redundant, and the initial messages you were getting were indicating you are >> booting in a

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-20 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Stephen Morris writes: resynced all RAID partitions, I ran grub2-install and I'm fairly certain there was a definitive change in grub's behavior, afterwards. Originally three periods were initially shown, for a few seconds, before the grub menu opened. I have a recollectio

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/20/24 15:30, Stephen Morris wrote: Given that you are indicating that you are booting off a raid environment and hence have Fedora installed on raid, I'm assuming you are using Fedora server, is that correct? I'm just curious because I played around with using Raid 10 a couple of years ago

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-20 Thread Stephen Morris
On 20/3/24 11:28, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:50, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update.  From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/19/24 17:29, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:05:51 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: [root@jack ~]# grub2-install /dev/sda That is the way you install grub for old MSDOS partitions. To install grub with GPT and use EFI, it needs different arguments. Something like: grub2-install

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
disk, recently – after I reassembled and resynced all RAID partitions, I ran grub2-install and I'm fairly certain there was a definitive change in grub's behavior, afterwards. Originally three periods were initially shown, for a few seconds, before the grub menu opened. I have a recoll

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:05:51 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote: > [root@jack ~]# grub2-install /dev/sda That is the way you install grub for old MSDOS partitions. To install grub with GPT and use EFI, it needs different arguments. Something like: grub2-install --target x86_64-efi --removable --b

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:50, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update.  From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/19/24 16:50, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update.  From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Samuel Sieb writes: On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update. From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need the bootloader on both /dev/sda and /dev

Re: How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 3/19/24 16:05, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I noticed that there was a grub2 update. From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need the bootloader on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. [root@jack

How to turn grub2-install from sad to happy.

2024-03-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I noticed that there was a grub2 update. From prior experience I know that one needs to manually run grub2-install to actually update the bootloader. Additionally I run mdraid, so I need the bootloader on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. But: [root@jack ~]# grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-install

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-16 Thread George N. White III
38, having not put any on for a week or so, after upgrading from F37 via >> dnf system-upgrade a couple of weeks ago. >> After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the >> grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the >> l

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-15 Thread Stephen Morris
couple of weeks ago.     After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the linux kernels, does anyone know what this means and why they are being produced from the released version of grub2

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-15 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/6/23 11:11, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:53:58 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F It means OCD linux geeks have decided they ought to remove an option used for decades in uncounted thousands of shell scripts because they don't lik

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-11 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 11 Jun 2023 at 16:24, George N. White III wrote: From: "George N. White III" Date sent: Sun, 11 Jun 2023 16:24:45 -0300 Subject: Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message To: Community support for Fedora users Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users > &g

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-11 Thread George N. White III
e maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the > grub.cfg file and got the message below after it notified of finding the > linux kernels, does anyone know what this means and why they are being > produced from the released version of grub2-mkconfig, the process I ran > after the mainte

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 19:41:34 +0200 Ralf Corsépius wrote: > You mean, after a 15 years period of deprecation Yes, I always examine ever single shell script I have and google for any potential deprecations for every command I use every time there is an update. _

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-10 Thread Ralf Corsépius
Am 10.06.23 um 03:11 schrieb Tom Horsley: On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:53:58 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F It means OCD linux geeks have decided they ought to remove an option used for decades in uncounted thousands of shell scripts because they d

Re: grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-09 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:53:58 +1000 Stephen Morris wrote: > fgrep: warning: fgrep is obsolescent; using grep -F It means OCD linux geeks have decided they ought to remove an option used for decades in uncounted thousands of shell scripts because they don't like it. They've done the same with egrep

grub2-mkconfig Strange Message

2023-06-09 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I have just used dnf to put on the currently available maintenance in F38, having not put any on for a week or so, after upgrading from F37 via dnf system-upgrade a couple of weeks ago.     After putting on the maintenance I used grub2-mkconfig to build the grub.cfg file and got the

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2023-06-04 Thread Stephen Morris
" To: "Community support for Fedora users" Cc: "stan" Subject: Re: grub2-mkconfig try typing vgs/lvs/pvs and see if that also gets the warning. Some prior centos version did also have this error for a while, I never noticed any real issue with the programs reporting

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2023-06-03 Thread Patrick Dupre
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2023 at 8:11 PM > From: "Roger Heflin" > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > Cc: "stan" > Subject: Re: grub2-mkconfig > > try typing vgs/lvs/pvs and see if that also gets the warning. > Some prior centos

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2023-06-03 Thread Roger Heflin
at, Jun 3, 2023 at 9:09 AM stan via users wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 13:18:47 +0200 > Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On a machine with a triple boot (an 3 HD, all fedora), I get a > > bunches of > > > > File descriptor 3 (pipe:[

Re: grub2-mkconfig

2023-06-03 Thread stan via users
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 13:18:47 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > On a machine with a triple boot (an 3 HD, all fedora), I get a > bunches of > > File descriptor 3 (pipe:[240388]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent > PID 75317: grub2-probe > > when I run grub2-

grub2-mkconfig

2023-06-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, On a machine with a triple boot (an 3 HD, all fedora), I get a bunches of File descriptor 3 (pipe:[240388]) leaked on vgs invocation. Parent PID 75317: grub2-probe when I run grub2-mkconfig I have /boot/efi (UEFI) on /dev/sda3 (in fat16) and grub2 core.img on /dev/sda1 Can I fix this

Re: Installed Fedora 38 (sway) / grub2 on a new HD - boots OK but does not have a menuentry item in grub.cfg ?

2023-04-22 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
Francis, On 2023-04-22 17:18, francis.montag...@inria.fr wrote: Hi. On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:37:53 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: - but why is there is not a line like this in /boot/grub2/grub.conf for Fedora 38 Sway? I can see that the appropriate other Sway files are in the /boot

Re: Installed Fedora 38 (sway) / grub2 on a new HD - boots OK but does not have a menuentry item in grub.cfg ?

2023-04-22 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:37:53 +1000 Philip Rhoades via users wrote: > - but why is there is not a line like this in /boot/grub2/grub.conf for > Fedora 38 Sway? > I can see that the appropriate other Sway files are in the /boot tree so > I am guessing that grub2 somehow know

Installed Fedora 38 (sway) / grub2 on a new HD - boots OK but does not have a menuentry item in grub.cfg ?

2023-04-21 Thread Philip Rhoades via users
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora Linux 38 (Sway)" ANSI_COLOR="0;38;2;60;110;180" . VARIANT="Sway" VARIANT_ID=sway - The install picked up old Fedora boot setups which show up in /boot/grub2/grub.conf like this: menuentry 'Fedora Linux 37 (KDE Plasma) (on /dev/sde3)' --

Re: Grub2 now Using the Wrong grub.cfg File?

2022-11-27 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/22 17:03, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/26/22 21:10, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi, With the install of grub2 2.06.67 in F37 and playing around with trying to eliminate the unicode font signing issue highlighted in another thread, I've now found that grub2 when displaying its boot

Re: Grub2 now Using the Wrong grub.cfg File?

2022-11-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/26/22 21:10, Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     With the install of grub2 2.06.67 in F37 and playing around with trying to eliminate the unicode font signing issue highlighted in another thread, I've now found that grub2 when displaying its boot menus is no longer reading /boot/

Grub2 now Using the Wrong grub.cfg File?

2022-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     With the install of grub2 2.06.67 in F37 and playing around with trying to eliminate the unicode font signing issue highlighted in another thread, I've now found that grub2 when displaying its boot menus is no longer reading /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, which I believe was introduced

Re: boot fedora 37 iso image file from grub2?

2022-11-20 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 10:47:22 -0500 Tom Horsley wrote: > If I try the same thing with the Fedora 37 iso image file (looking up > the CDLABEL to use via the isoinfo tool), it doesn't work. Figured it out. I loop mounted the iso file and found a grub.cfg file and interpolated the info in there to ma

boot fedora 37 iso image file from grub2?

2022-11-20 Thread Tom Horsley
rk. I guess the entire internal structure of the iso image is now different? (Something to do with getting rid of syslinux maybe?) Anyone know the proper incantation to boot the iso image directly via grub2? ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: grub2 Question

2022-11-01 Thread Felix Miata
Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-11-01 17:37 (UTC-0400): >> Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): >>> ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc >>> grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms ... > No mention of MBR as

Re: grub2 Question

2022-11-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/1/22 14:37, Robert McBroom via users wrote: No mention of MBR as the drive is GPT. Totally UEFI system, four drives three OS. I was suspecting a problem with the boot sector, but on removal of all drives but the one, it boots. Adding the drives one by one to see the point of digression.

Re: grub2 Question

2022-11-01 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 10/31/22 17:26, Felix Miata wrote: Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Stephen Morris
On 1/11/22 08:26, Felix Miata wrote: Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Felix Miata
Robert McBroom via users composed on 2022-10-31 17:17 (UTC-0400): > Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. > ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc > grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms > because it does not support UEFI

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:17:35 -0400 Robert McBroom via users wrote: > ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc > grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms > because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. An efi install of grub2 needs more info than just a disk drive. Here i

Re: grub2 Question

2022-10-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 10/31/22 14:17, Robert McBroom via users wrote: Running Fedora 35 and trying to fix installed boot files on a third drive. ~]# grub2-install /dev/sdc grub2-install: error: this utility cannot be used for EFI platforms because it does not support UEFI Secure Boot. Secure Boot is turned off

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