Two things still broken on FC16 for me

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 12 20:13:12 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 11:52 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> One is a little silly, the other is a pain.
> 
> The easy one:
> 
> Why does GRUB2 still echo back an older version of the kernel, the menu
> it puts up has the right number, but after selecting it it says booting
> <blah> and blah is a very old kernel number (by very old I mean three
> weeks ago). Now I can see in /etc/grub2.cfg why this is happening but
> shouldn't something update this. Is it grubby? I don't know.

It's probably a grubby bug, yes. grubby works by taking the latest entry
in the current grub.cfg and using it as a template for the new entry; it
may well not be written to update the 'echo 'Loading foobar'' line for
the new kernel name.
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