Re: is grubby a dumb software?

[François Patte]

Le 26/05/2019 à 19:04, ja a écrit :
> On Sun, 2019-05-26 at 08:20 -0700, stan via users wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 May 2019 10:49:00 +0200
> > François Patte  wrote:
> > > Bonjour,
> > >
> > > For a long time now grubby has replaced grub2-mkconfig to update the
> > > grub.cfg file. From this time, I have to correct the kernel update
> > > manualy with grub2-mkconfig because every time grubby chooses a wrong
> > > partition as the / partition.
> > >
> > > The choosen partition is not mounted, it is empty, with no boot
> > > flag....
> > >
> > > Why grubby chooses this partition? It is so stupide that I am
> > > wondering what is the way followed by grubby to to this?
> >
> > As far as I know, grubby used to merely copy the previous first entry in
> > the grub.cfg file and replace the old kernel with the new kernel.
> > So, that would imply that there is something wrong with the grub.cfg
> > file. Of course, grubby could have a bug, but as you say it has worked
> > fine for a long time.
> >
> > And, there is the new setup in F30, where it seems instead of a config
> > file there are scriptlets that emulate a config file.  I have no first
> > hand experience with that, but I've seen people having trouble with it
> > on this list. You might be running into that.
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> My understanding is that grubby has been replaced for a standard install

I don't understant what you mean here...
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> Things that may be relevant:
> Fresh install not an upgrade

I update my f29 system
> No separate /boot partition

I have a separate boot partition
> EFI boot of install media - hence EFI installation

My install is not an EFI one
> No logical volumes anywhere on the SSD

I use lvm
> BLS installation by default !?

???

Moreover my system uses raid-1 + lvm

Do you mean that grubby --- which seems to be the grub configuration
tool chosen by fedora --- cannot handle my installation? What can I do:
change to another distrib?

another answer to my post says:
> As far as I know, grubby used to merely copy the previous first entry in
> the grub.cfg file

I can say: no! If this was the case there will not be any problem...

My GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub point to the right partition
but it seems that grubby does not care...