Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

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Chris Murphy writes:

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.

Since grub2-install requires a parameter that specifies a boot device, it would be helpful to provide some pointers to figure out what your boot device is.

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