F18: new boot-up sequence, but old partitions still in /boot/grub2/grub.cfg !?!?!?

Stub spamrefuse at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 22 08:23:06 UTC 2014 

Hi,

I have F18 on an i686 PC.

I have changed my boot up sequence from logical volumes to regular partitions.
Upon regenerating the grub2 boot process, the grub2 keeps creating a /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file that refers to the non-existing logical volumes. Hence, the boot process fails with a dracut-initqueue error.

Here is what I have done: 

The system partitions are in logical volumes on a small hard disk (/dev/VolGroup/lv_root, /dev/VolGroup/lv_var, /dev/VolGroup/lv_tmp etc.).
The home directory is on a separate big 1GB harddisk as regular partition.

The small system harddisk showed signs of break down; I repartitioned the 1GB disk to also include the system:
sda1 256MB /boot
sda2   4GB /
sda3   1GB swap
sda4 Extended
sda5   4GB /var
sda6   1GB /tmp
sda7  50GB /srv
sda8 871GB /home

For that I copied all the files from the logical volumes to the new partitions.
I then prepared the new boot sequence after booting from a live USB boot medium:


# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/var
# mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/tmp
# mount -t proc none /mnt/proc
# mount -t sysfs sys /mnt/sys
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
# chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Then I do in the chroot I do:

# grub2-install /dev/sda
# grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
# exit

then 'unmount' everything and reboot.

In the boot I 
dracut-initqueue[109]: Warning:    Could not boot.


I also regenerated the initramfs file with dracut; to no avail.

Why does the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg still have entries to the logical volumes?
(See below).

Any ideas?

Thank you!
Rob.

=====================

# contents of /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
  load_env
fi
set default="${saved_entry}"

if [ x"${feature_menuentry_id}" = xy ]; then
  menuentry_id_option="--id"
else
  menuentry_id_option=""
fi

export menuentry_id_option

if [ "${prev_saved_entry}" ]; then
  set saved_entry="${prev_saved_entry}"
  save_env saved_entry
  set prev_saved_entry=
  save_env prev_saved_entry
  set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
  if [ -z "${boot_once}" ]; then
    saved_entry="${chosen}"
    save_env saved_entry
  fi
}

function load_video {
  if [ x$feature_all_video_module = xy ]; then
    insmod all_video
  else
    insmod efi_gop
    insmod efi_uga
    insmod ieee1275_fb
    insmod vbe
    insmod vga
    insmod video_bochs
    insmod video_cirrus
  fi
}

if [ x$feature_default_font_path = xy ] ; then
   font=unicode
else
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos2'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos2 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos2 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos2  56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76
fi
    font="/usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2"
fi

if loadfont $font ; then
  set gfxmode=auto
  load_video
  insmod gfxterm
  set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
  set lang=en_US
  insmod gettext
fi
terminal_output gfxterm
set timeout=5
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Fedora' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-simple-56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  44874061-1438-44f1-be46-28b4db3b9abe
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 44874061-1438-44f1-be46-28b4db3b9abe
fi
echo'Loading Linux 3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE ...'
linux/vmlinuz-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE root=UUID=56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76 ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup/lv_swap  vconsole.keymap=us quiet vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup/lv_root rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd/initramfs-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE.img
}
submenu 'Advanced options for Fedora' $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-advanced-56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76' {
menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE-advanced-56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  44874061-1438-44f1-be46-28b4db3b9abe
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 44874061-1438-44f1-be46-28b4db3b9abe
fi
echo'Loading Linux 3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE ...'
linux/vmlinuz-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE root=UUID=56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76 ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup/lv_swap  vconsole.keymap=us quiet vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup/lv_root rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd/initramfs-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE.img
}
menuentry 'Fedora, with Linux 3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE (recovery mode)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE-recovery-56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76' {
load_video
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1  44874061-1438-44f1-be46-28b4db3b9abe
else
  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 44874061-1438-44f1-be46-28b4db3b9abe
fi
echo'Loading Linux 3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE ...'
linux/vmlinuz-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE root=UUID=56b2df3a-1d83-4409-9b98-e50527ee4c76 ro single rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup/lv_swap  vconsole.keymap=us quiet vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb rd.lvm.lv=VolGroup/lv_root rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
echo'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd/initramfs-3.11.10-100.fc18.i686.PAE.img
}
}

### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_ppc_terminfo ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_ppc_terminfo ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f  ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
  source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f  $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
  source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
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