On 05/02/2013 03:07 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
On Thu, 2013-05-02 at 13:17 -0400, sean darcy wrote:
On 04/30/2013 02:05 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 04/30/2013 10:14 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
* make sure "installonly_limit" in "/etc/yum.conf" is high enough to not
remove the 3.7.x
If you really want to be safe:
yum remove kernel
will remove all installed kernels *except* for the one you're currently
using. (That is, yum won't allow you to leave yourself without a kernel
for the next time you boot.) You probably don't need to be this
heavy-handed, but you never know when something like this might come in
handy.
I did that. Ran yum update. Same problem.
But I figured it out. I've been planning to upgrade to F18 when I have
the courage. I've run fedup. But then when I upgrade to a new F17,
grub2, in it's infinite wisdom, places all the upgrade stuff from a
fedup boot to the command line of the new F17 kernel.
Only way to fix is to go edit grub.cfg itself. And you need to keep
doing it with every kernel upgrade. Sigh.
GRUB2 works more like LILO than like old GRUB, in that there is a
configuration file to edit and an installation procedure to get the boot
process to use the updated configuration.
The file to edit is /etc/default/grub. The installation command is
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
That command runs some scripts that create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg,
which--as you've discovered--you should never edit.
/etc/default/grub is a set of shell variable definitions. The one you
want to edit is GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, which contains a template for the
kernel command line arguments. Once this is fixed, the kernel update
process should work correctly.
If have trouble figuring out what to fix, post the contents of
your /etc/default/grub here.
If you are annoyed by the "missing font file" error message when grub2
starts, add the line
LANG=C
to the top of that file.
sean
You miss the point. /etc/default/grub was never changed, and CMDLINE is
the same as always:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8"
Nonetheless, grub2 is putting all the upgrade stuff in the command line.
That's the error.
sean
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