Fedora 17, not possible to add kernel parameters to GRUB 2

[agraham]

On 07/02/2012 02:01 AM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> On 07/01/2012 08:42 PM, agraham wrote:
>>
>> F17 must be the only linux distribution in history in which you cannot
>> edit kernel parameters from the boot menu.
>>
> I've actually run into this bug, but I found with a little exploration
> that it's just a misplacement
> of the cursor. If you let the cursor be a line or so below the "linux"
> line and hit the "end" key
> it will "logically" be the right place, but the cursor isn't in the
> right place, and one *can* change
> the kernel parameters.

One *cannot* because it crashes as I previously mentioned.

I could live with the fact that you cannot see what you are editing, but 
the fact that it crashes when you change anything it the real problem.

> grub-2.00-rc1 is in the GNU repo, and it fixes most of the problems.
> robatino is tracking
> the development and I hope the rc1 gomes in an update soon.
>
> After yumming in the beta6 rpm, don't forget to grub2-install /dev/sd<x>
> to actually replace
> the grub2 code on the disk.
>
My understanding is that you do not need to do grub2-install /dev/blah, 
that only does the MBR install, the README.Fedora in the source states:

The active boot loader will not be changed when the GRUB 2 package is 
updated. A new boot loader can be installed with something like:

   grub2-install /dev/sda

Unless I'm misunderstanding this.

Albert.