Fedora 16 grub2-mkconfig

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:52:16 +0100, MS (Michael) wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:34:53 +0200, NG (Nicolae) wrote:
> 
> > After running grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, I saw that
> > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg was not updated.
> > 
> > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> > Generating grub.cfg ...
> > Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.1.0-5.fc16.x86_64
> > Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.1.0-5.fc16.x86_64.img
> >  No volume groups found
> > Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
> > Found Mac OS X on /dev/sda3
> > 
> > Instead  /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.new was created, and it did not contain
> > my custom menu entry.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong ? Am I missing a step ?
> 
> /sbin/grub2-mkconfig is just a shell script. grub.cfg.new is the temporary
> file it uses for creating and verifying the new config file. Based on your
> output quoted above you could find out where the script stops unexpectedly
> and without printing an error message. Especially if the problem is
> reproducible for you, it shouldn't be difficult to debug the script.

And since this thread has been started on several lists, the "Mac OS X"
entry above means it's this bug:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/737203

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