GRUB2 packages, fedup

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Wed Jan 9 01:57:50 UTC 2013


On Jan 8, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:43:36PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> We did (try to...) convert installs from grub to grub2 when we did that
>> migration in Fedora...16?...when using the 'official upgrade
>> path' (anaconda, at the time), so that precedent suggests we should do
>> the same for EFI. If not in F18 with package updates, at least in F19.
> 
> Not EFI related, but a note -- if original-grub configuration files exist,
> they should stay, because the system may be a Xen guest booted with pv-grub.

Original F17 efi files are in /boot/efi/EFI/redhat. The replacement grub2 files go in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora. So I'd expect the old ones to remain behind.

Chris Murphy


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