Problem booting under F16

[Sam Varshavchik]

Joe Zeff writes:

> On 11/27/2011 06:13 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > Again, I'd suggest uninstalling the most recent kernel, and reinstalling
> > it, in order to regenerate the initrd, and the grub menu item for it,
> > afresh.
>
> More information, now that I'm home again and have time to dig into
> this.  I went back into the yum history and found the update in
> question.  It included this line in the list of updates:
>
> Install kernel-PAE-3.1.2-1.fc16.i686
>
> At the bottom was this:
>
> Scriptlet output:
>     1 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
>     2 grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
>     3 grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out
> new config.

If you upgraded from F15, grubby is complaining about the old grub.cfg. This  
is harmless. rm /etc/grub.cfg to make this complaint go away.

> I'm not sure what went wrong, or where, but I don't think that
> uninstalling and reinstalling that kernel will make any difference, at
> least until the grubby issue is corrected.

As log as grubby did its job with grub2, there is no issue.

If grubby is having a problem with grub2, using grub2-mkconfig should fix it.

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