[Bug 124246] grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=124246

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--- Comment #98 from Mads Kiilerich  ---
This bug has nothing to do with the initrd component.

The error message is a generic error message that grubby will use whenever shit
happens. The message is thus a _symptom_ of some problem, but all the "me
too"'s here will probably have different root causes and different solutions.

3 main places this message is seen:

* When installing a new system from scratch and kernel installation can't clone
any existing boot loader entry because they haven't been created yet - bug
730357 started with that.

* When the system have some of /etc/grub.cfg and /etc/grub2.conf and
/etc/grub2-efi.conf pointing to an invalid and unused configuration. Grubby
will complain that it was fatal for _one_ of the boot loader configurations,
but it doesn't matter at all as long the right boot loader is handled correctly
... and it usually is. Just uninstall the boot loaders you don't use and/or
remove the unused symlinks.

* When not using an initrd and grubby gets confused by inconsistencies in the
system - Bug 833011.

I suggest leaving this bug closed.

If you see this symptom for other reasons than the one mentioned above then
better file a separate bug so we don't get the different cases mixed up.