Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2012 23:48:32 +0100
agraham wrote:

> I've installed F17 (in a VM) and on first boot, it is not possible to 
> modify any kernel parameters. There appears to be 2 problems:

Right you are. There was a bug in grub2:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830843

I don't know if the fix in there has made it to
an official update yet or not, but if you manually
install that grub2, you also need to re-run
grub2-install for it to actually take effect.