On 08/27/2015 08:37 AM, Pete Travis wrote: > > > efibootmgr acts on the firmware boot menu. The firmware boots grub, > which lives on the efi system partition (It's a file on a vfat > filesystem, not code in an MBR). grub gives you a menu and boots the > kernel. > ubuntu was the last OS installed, and it created a grub.cfg file, /boot/grub/grub.cfg . so I boot back into fedora, but I have to edit the grub menu to use the newest kernel, which isn't listed. > > This means that both ubuntu and fedora can have a grub binary > installed, each with a config file. Figure out which one you are > booting first. If it's the ubuntu grub, this is all expected and you > need to manually update the associated grub.cfg (not the binary, just > the config file!) If it's Fedora, also manually update, but also look > into where the kernel failed to update grub.cfg. > > TL;DR: What is the actual full command you used when invoking > grub2-mkconfig ? > well I see 2 grub.cfg files , ls -l /boot/grub2/grub.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12189 Aug 27 06:39 /boot/grub2/grub.cfg [root@pauls-desktop backups]# ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg -rwx------ 1 root root 12189 Aug 27 06:40 /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg I did the command grub2-mkconfig twice, to update both of those files.. so now how do I get the efibootmgr to recognize/use one of those files?? # df -h|grep efi /dev/sda8 95M 9.5M 86M 11% /boot/efi -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
