On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 8:29 PM, P. Gueckel <pgueckel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Chris Murphy wrote: > >> On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 7:48 PM, P. Gueckel > <pgueckel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Mike Chambers wrote: >>> >>>> Maybe you need to boot up into rescue mode and >>> reinstall grub? I've had >>>> to do that a few times during fresh installs > lately. >>> >>> That had already occurred to me. How do I select >>> rescue mode, when I cannot even get the grub menu? > I >>> the tried, from grub rescue, typing set > root=(hd0,1) >>> and on another line trying linux16 /boot/vmlinuz... >>> but there is no way for me to determine the exact > name >>> of the kernel. Just as an experiment, I tried cat >>> (hd0,1)/boot/grub2/grub.cfg but cat is not > recognized, >>> etc. I think access to all of the files on the > drive >>> are blocked, so even were I to deduce their names >>> correctly, I would not be able to access them. >> >> It may be one of the TPM related patches for GRUB. I > suggest filing a >> bug, as during the entire pre-release testing of > beta no one ran into >> this and the more information that's collected about > the problem the >> better off Fedora is for final release. Include in > the bug cc: >> mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> More info on TPMs and measured boot. >> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/LTZW5RA3VAYGS7GFIXNYUU3GJBNLPGPH >> >> After that, you can probably fix this by booting any > media you have >> and putting the new system in a chroot: >> mount <devrootfs> /mnt >> mount <devboot> /mnt/boot >> mount -B /sys /mnt/sys >> mount -B /dev /mnt/dev >> mount -B /proc /mnt/proc >> chroot /mnt >> curl -Os >> > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/grub2/2.02/0.25.fc23/x86_64/grub2-2.02-0.25.fc23.x86_64.rpm >> & curl -Os >> > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/grub2/2.02/0.25.fc23/x86_64/grub2-tools-2.02-0.25.fc23.x86_64.rpm >> & curl -Os >> > https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/grub2/2.02/0.25.fc23/x86_64/grub2-efi-2.02-0.25.fc23.x86_64.rpm >> & dnf downgrade *rpm >> grub2-install /dev/sdX >> exit >> reboot >> >> Seems like it ought to be easier but that's what I'm > thinking off off >> hand. >> >> > > Hey, thanks! If its that long and complicated, it has > to work ;-) I've been at this literally since > breakfast, so I think I'll call it a day for tonight, > but I will give that a try and file the bug report, > too. I'll include your email address in the CCs. > > Merci a lot. I sure hope it works! That old laptop is > still as good as new, practically. I'd hate it to be > bricked. I suppose I could go back to F23, if TPM > hasn't gotten hardware switched somehow. Have you had a chance to file a bug about this yet? It's a concerning bug and we'd like to get more information about it sooner than later to determine the scope. Thanks. Especially what make/model and firmware revision it has from 'dmesg | grep DMI' would be useful to know even in this email thread so we can estimate how big of a problem this might be. -- Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
