On 19 Mar 2012 at 17:39, Piscium wrote: Date sent: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:39:43 +0000 Subject: Re: grub2-mkconfig with 3.2.10 kernels? From: Piscium <groknok@xxxxxxxxx> To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscrib e> <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe > > On 18 March 2012 15:00, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > Just did an update and it included a new kernel, but then on > > reboot after running grub2-mkconfig noticed that the newest one > > was not first. Seems to be sorting the 9 before the 10? > > Is this a > bug? > > I have been using Grub2 built from upstream sources since before I > started using Fedora (F12). This is an issue I am very familiar with, > and the way I address it is by setting GRUB_DEFAULT when needed. > > This issue is with respect to the way the Fedora kernel versions are > sorted (but it works well with Ubuntu and Debian versioning). The bug > might be in os-prober (rather than grub2). -- users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription > options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have > a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org I have had some messages on the grub list, and they confirmed the bug, and a fix seems to be to modify the /usr/lib/grub/grub_mkconfig_lib by changing one line from sort -n to sort -V. Note: That is an unofficial patch in this case does seem to fix the problem. +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS SETI 11952853.535440 | EINSTEIN 7526408.719852 ROSETTA 4328655.752081 | ABC 11789983.901504 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org