Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

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On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:21 PM Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

It happens if the most recent 'grub2-install' happened with a Fedora
20 or older GRUB package. e.g. if you installed Fedora 20 clean, then
did an OS upgrade every 6-12 months all the way through to Fedora 30,
then you'd probably run into this bug. But if at any point from Fedora
21 and newer you ever did a 'grub2-install' you won't hit it.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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