Ahmad Samir composed on 2017-10-08 14:35 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata wrote:
> FWIW in case it could matter, grub* and os-prober are not
installed.
> I've tried 5 times to dnf install 4.13.4-300.fc27.x86_64 on
host p5bse, once
> thru 'dnf update', and 4 more times either dnf reinstall or delete first
then
> install. Each time goes through the motions without changing anything in /boot/
> except for the timestamps on the loader and <longname> subdirs. The new kernel
> and initrd do get produced in the <longname> tree. rpm query has shown success
> each time. dnf.rpm.log shows non-fatal POSTTRANS scriptlet failures the first 2
> times, but not the last 3 times. I don't see any details on what is actually
> failing in any of the logs.
> Trying to install kernel, core and modules directly with rpm
produces a broken
> pipe cat write error, but otherwise no better result than dnf.
> Manually copying and renaming the kernel and initrd from
<longname> to /boot/
> produces normally booting and running 4.13.4 kernel.
> Anyone else experiencing this?
I don't see any mention there that the new vmlinuz <4.13.4> is not installed at
the default location.
I do see mention there of grubby, which I would expect to be irrelevant on my
grub2-free (multiboot) installations.
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