Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common >>> it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that >>> originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had >>> 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can be prevented just >>> by running 'grub2-install' before commencing the Fedora 30 upgrade. >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_populated_after_an_upgrade >>> >>> It's worth going through all the Common Bugs. >> >> The text actually says: >> >> So if you have an installation that has been updated since Fedora 20 >> or before, it is recommended to execute the grub2-install command >> before doing a system upgrade. >> >> I assume that should say "... if you have an installation that has NOT >> been updated since Fedora 20 or before ..." > > Good catch. I fixed that, and made a few other clean ups, let me know > if you spot any other problems. I thing it was correct before, but perhaps it could still be improved. (Obviously, the wording isn't as clear as it can be or we wouldn't be having this conversation. ;) What I took from the prior wording is that if you installed Fedora 20 or earlier and then only updated the OS since (and had not manually run grub2-update), that you would hit this bug. -- Todd
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