On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:23 AM stan via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 20:57:48 -0500 > Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well I figured out PART of it... I'm not sure when it changed but the > > individual boot load entries are no longer generated and inserted into > > grub.cfg during grub2-mkconfig, but are individual files now in > > /boot/loader/entries. > > I think this was introduced in F30, and it became the default in F31. > Called snippets. It is no longer necessary to update the grub.cfg file > with snippets enabled, though it is OK to do so. > Yup, found the change URL. I'm sure I read it when it was originally published, but failed to "grok" it's impact. > > And even though I only have 3 kernels installed (all 5.5.x series) > > there were left over files (vmlinuz, System.map, initramfs, & config) > > for older kernels so something wasn't cleaning them up correctly on > > update. > > Assuming you are using efi, and if you go into /boot/efi/EFI/fedora > and run the command > grub2-mkconfig -o grub.cfg > that should fix your issue with kernels in the menu. Well, not exactly... This one is non-EFI. I actually converted my desktop to EFI and it was VERY painful and took me months to track down weird bugs because it wasn't 100% migrated. I'm glad I did it one (got the T-shirt) but I have no intention of ever doing that again :) > Not sure what is > causing the lack of cleanup, as everything updates correctly here on > F31. Maybe check /etc/default/grub to ensure options are set the way > you want? Perhaps you caught the migration from the old grub2 > technique to the snippets technique, and there was cruft left over. > Did you save more kernels in the past, /etc/dnf/dnf.conf? > I updated grub2/grub.cfg but I did it to a temporary file first and diff'ed the differences not finding anything significant. I deleted the extraneous entries in /boot/loader/entries and installed a new kernel in testing (5.5.15) and everything appears OK. Must have been a migration issue. Not that should make a different but I am booting BIOS with a GPT partition using a 2M "bios_boot" partition. Thanks, Richard
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