Re: rawhide report: 20081023 changes

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Michael Schwendt wrote, On 10/23/2008 01:28 PM:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:06:18 +0200, zachpowers wrote:

after using yum to update (10/23) i have a problem. rebooting leaves me stuck on a blank screen that says only "GRUB" and has a pulsing cursor. If I use a livecd and mount my boot partition I see what looks to be a correct set of files including grub.conf and the vmlinuz of for the new kernel.
which package could be the culprit?

The kernel package's postinstall script, which runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg (from mkinitrd pkg) to reinstall GRUB (instead of just editing grub.conf).

AFAIK it's not reproducible. It's in Bugzilla several times most likely.
For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/432555

What seems to happen is that in some run-time environments under special
circumstances the reinstallation of GRUB is not successful. Collecting
data about the affected systems might be helpful.


Under what conditions IS the reinstallation of grub a NEEDED thing for a KERNEL?
Are there any?
Can they be detected at script run time and only activate this portion when it IS needed? I thought that one of the benefits of grub was that unlike LILO, you did not have to reinstall it for changes in it's config to take effect.


I could understand a reinstall of grub when an updated grub package was installed.

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