grub conflicts grub2

Christian Menzel christian.menzel at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 21:54:45 UTC 2011


On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Christian Menzel <
christian.menzel at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 18:46 +0200, Christian Menzel wrote:
>>
>> >         What's eventually going to happen is that grub2 will replace
>> >         grub and
>> >         you'll have to write a new config manually. You can beat the
>> >         rush and do
>> >         it now - install grub2, remove grub (you can use yum shell
>> >         mode to do
>> >         this without any complaints), run 'grub2-mkconfig
>> >         -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg' then 'grub2-install /dev/whatever' ,
>> >         where /dev/whatever is the device you want to boot from.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for your answer, I appreciate it, but are you sure this also
>> > works with UEFI?
>>
>> No, indeed not, I missed the EFI wrinkle. We are going to have some fun
>> with that. For an EFI install you want to have grub installed, not
>> grub2. Remove the grub2 package and ensure the grub or grub-efi package
>> is installed (grub-efi has been split off from grub in a recent update).
>>
>
> I removed grub2, updated grub, installed grub-efi and the system still
> boots.
> Thank you!
>
>>
>>
Well,  the latest update wants to replace grub with grub2 and update
grub-efi.

I hesitate to execute the update, will EFI systems still boot?
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