grub linuxefi initrdefi

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 16:29 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Is it the responsibility of grubby, or the kernel rpm, when writing
> out an updated grub.cfg, to include initrdefi? And are these commands
> applicable on all (U)EFI?
> 
> 
> After updating an EFI booting Mac to 3.7.4-204, I get a brief message
> from GRUB saying that the kernel must be loaded first, then a kernel
> panic. The new menu entry for this kernel uses linuxefi, but it uses
> initrd not initrdefi as the other entries do.
> 
> 
> If I manually edit the grub.cfg to use initrdefi, I don't get this
> error or panic. And grub2-mkconfig also produces a grub.cfg using
> initrdefi. Therefore it appears the lack of this command causes boot
> failure, but I'd like to know what component the bug should be filed
> against.

I'd go for grubby. This sounds vaguely familiar, though - try searching
bugzilla for 'initrdefi' first, to see if there's an existing report.
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