I just updated to the new (testing) kernel. When it was done, a message appeared that grubby was unable to find a suitable template. Thinking nothing of this, I rebooted the system, and instead of the usual graphical grub menu appearing, a black screen with a grub prompt appeared. I was forced to manually enter the root, kernel and initramfs. Fortunately, I know how to do this, but what I noticed was that the initramfs for the new kernel was missing, so I had to boot the previous kernel. The system booted but I got a lot of strange messages first. I presume these were systemd errors. At first it appeared that the system would not boot, due to the severity of the messages that appeared, but then it all progressed anyway. Once booted (old kernel), I examined grub.conf and saw that the entry for the new kernel was not there. I ran yum-complete-transaction, and there was one pending transaction that completed successfully in a split second, but this did not cause initramfs for the new kernel to be created, nor did it cause the missing grub.conf entry for the new kernel to appear. Then, I decided to install grub again, so I ran grub-install /dev/sda and I got three messages about /dev/root not existing and a fourth one (I forgot what it said). Then, I decided to install grub using the grub shell, and I was told that the stage1 and stage 2 were out of sync, or something like that (I cannot recall the exact message, but it failed). So, I downgraded grub and this time I was able to use the grub shell, but still not grub-install (same errors about /dev/root and the other one). Since the initramfs for the new kernel was not there, I uninstalled this kernel and reinstalled it. Again, grubby gave me the strange message about the missing template and grub.conf was not updated, but the initramfs was created. I manually entered the missing information into grub.conf. Then, I upgraded grub again. Now, the new kernel boots fine. What was going on here? Why did the initramfs not get created? Why is grub not updating grub.conf? Why were stage1 and stage 2 of grub not in sync (or whatever it was)? Why can I not install grub using grub- install (but I can using the grub shell)? -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
