grub2 boot problems after updating to grub2-tools-2.00-20 and grub2-2.00-20

[Joachim Backes]

On 06/17/2013 09:55 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 08:55 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Hi all testers,
>>
>> the "jumbo" update from this morning (Germany!) includes an update of
>> grub2 and grub2-tools to the version given in the subject.
>>
>> Problems:
>>
>> 1. If booting, grub2 complains about
>>
>> /boot/grub2/themes/system/DejeVuSans-10.pf2 not found
>> /boot/grub2/themes/system/DejeVuSans-12.pf2 not found
>> /boot/grub2/themes/system/DejeVuSans-Bold-14pf2 not found
>
>> /boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt not found
>>
>> 2. I miss the standard grub2 colored graphical display background during
>> the OS selection (b/w only)
>>
>>
>> Getting rid of this probs by downgrading grub2 and grub2-tools.
>>
>> Anybody sees this too?
>
> The update description reads:
>
> "Moves all of the theme to the -starfield subpackage. Update to latest
> upstream plus various fixes."
>
> If you want the theme, install grub2-starfield .

Oops:

sudo yum install grub2-starfield
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
No package grub2-starfield available.
Error: Nothing to do

Graphical themed grub
> is no longer the OOTB default; we went back to console mode as the
> default.
>
> Though Peter, IIRC, UEFI installs still use graphical mode by default?
> Do we want to put the theme in the default UEFI package set? Or am I off
> there?
>


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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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