Warning with grub2-mkconfig?

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 09:21:27 UTC 2014


On 29/06/14 17:58, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I have 20 identical machines in my classroom lab, and have options that require
> me to update the grub.cfg file on all machines via a script. That process works
> fine, but just know 1 of the 20 machines is showing a warning in the process,
> while the other 19 run with no warning. The grub2 report the same version, and
> all machine are fully updated??
>
> grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> Generating grub.cfg ...
> Found background: /boot/verne.png
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64.img
> Warning: Please don't use old title ‘Fedora, with Linux 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64’
> for GRUB_DEFAULT, use ‘Advanced options for Fedora>Fedora, with Linux
> 3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64’ (for versions before 2.00) or
> ‘gnulinux-advanced-da77086f-03af-4125-9acd-f8a4215b5dd6>gnulinux-3.14.8-200.fc20.x86_64-advanced-da77086f-03af-4125-9acd-f8a4215b5dd6’
> (for 2.00 or later)
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.14.7-200.fc20.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.14.7-200.fc20.x86_64.img
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.14.5-200.fc20.x86_64.img
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-c55c7a49359e497fadc04cf0a1871063
> Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-c55c7a49359e497fadc04cf0a1871063.img
> Found memtest image: /boot/elf-memtest86+-5.01
> Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
> done
>
> So, don't know why 19 machines would work correctly, but one gives the above
> warning?
>
> Even ran yum reinstall grub2*, but results are the same afterwards as well.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>

I'd compare /etc/default/grub in the affected machine with the one from 
a machine that doesn't exhibit that warning.


-- 
Ahmad Samir


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