dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:53:42AM +0200, poma wrote:
> > The bug is in grubby, which is what's called from within kernel
> > packages to update bootloader configuration scripts: GRUB legacy,
> > GRUB2, syslinux, yaboot, and probably a bunch of other bootloaders
> > are all supported by grubby. It looks at the existing "old" kernel
> > entry to use as a guide for inserting a new entry for the new
> > kernel. It fails because it doesn't understand subvolumes.
> Are you sure it supports GRUB Legacy, 'cause in Rawhide after the
> kernel upgrade there's no new entrance in /boot/grub/grub.conf.

It may have a new bug, but it historically always did.

> Besides it's called extlinux, not a syslinux.

That's complicated. Syslinux is a suite of programs, and Extlinux is
one of those. I think it used to be fork, but it's merged back in.

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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader