Re: Grubby? Doesn't Load Initrd

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> On Jan 7, 2023, at 02:44, Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2023-01-07 at 14:36 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> I've just done an update which installed kernel 6.0.16 and I forgot 
>> to run grub2-mkconfig, and when I booted from the grub menu's defined in 
>> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg presumably updated by grubby, it did not run 
>> initrd, the grub.cfg file generated by grub2-mkconfig does run initrd.
> 
> I have to ask, since I see a lot of grubby posts (pun intended):
> 
> I've *NEVER* run grub2-mkconfig.  I've always just yum/dnf update (do
> all current updates), or just dnf update kernel (if I wanted to
> specifically just do that), and it's always installed the new kernel
> properly all by itself.  No further action was required by me.
> 
> What are people doing to their systems that they paint themselves into
> a corner that they have to manually manage this, then have to pick up
> the pieces when it doesn't work?

You should never need to run grub2-mkconfig after each kernel update. The only reason I can guess at is that they ran it to overwrite the file in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/ (which is normally a stub that loads the default file in /boot/grub2/) and now they have to manually run it each time. 

Normally, the only reason you’d run it is if you changed a variable in /etc/default/grub. Grubby just creates new bootloaderspec files in /boot/loader. 

Also, I don’t believe grubby creates new initrd files, that’s handled by the kernel post install scripts. (Which also calls grubby). 

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Jonathan Billings
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