Grub boot menu after kernel update/install

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Tue Nov 20 09:36:26 UTC 2012



Am 20.11.2012 09:04, schrieb Mateusz Marzantowicz:
> I know it's nothing serious but after installing/removing new kernel
> with yum my boot menu is totally messed up.
> 
> What I mean here is that after clean install of Fedora (17/18) or after
> running grub2-mkconfig there are only two "top level" items in grub menu:
> 
> 1. Fedora
> 2. Advanced options for Fedora
> 
> I really like to have only those two items, but every kernel
> installation adds new items to the menu related to new kernels. Is it a
> bug or is it just some inconsistency? Why grub2-mkconfig makes order
> again but simple yum upgrade/distro-sync messes things? How can I fix
> permanently?

because yum updates are using grubby as all the years

before and i am thankful because i hate the "advenced options"
menu and grub2-mkconfig is buggy like hell: try to set
a grub-password on a remote machine and be happy that it
requests a password even on a untouched boot because
grub2-mkconfig is missing the "--unrestricted" in the
grub-config

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