Upgrade to 3.8.8-100: now boot loops ! solved: grub2 bug.

[sean darcy]

On 04/30/2013 02:05 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/30/2013 10:14 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> * make sure "installonly_limit" in "/etc/yum.conf" is high enough to not
>>    remove the 3.7.x
>
> If you really want to be safe:
>
> yum remove kernel
>
> will remove all installed kernels *except* for the one you're currently
> using.  (That is, yum won't allow you to leave yourself without a kernel
> for the next time you boot.)  You probably don't need to be this
> heavy-handed, but you never know when something like this might come in
> handy.

I did that. Ran yum update. Same problem.

But I figured it out. I've been planning to upgrade to F18 when I have 
the courage. I've run fedup. But then when I upgrade to a new F17, 
grub2, in it's infinite wisdom, places all the upgrade stuff from a 
fedup boot to the command line of the new F17 kernel.

Only way to fix is to go edit grub.cfg itself. And you need to keep 
doing it with every kernel upgrade. Sigh.

sean