dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

[poma]

On 21.10.2014 03:26, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Oct 20, 2014, at 8:53 PM, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 20.10.2014 17:14, Chris Murphy wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> Are you sure it supports GRUB Legacy, 'cause in Rawhide after the kernel upgrade there's no new entrance in /boot/grub/grub.conf.
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> Bug? Grubby has supported grub legacy since the beginning as far as I know. Certainly going back to Fedora 12 at least.


"Bug" came from Miller, not from me. :)
Actually I don't mind GRUB Legacy isn't supported, config is quite simple, the same as with the extlinux.
Why the GRUB(2) is used on BIOS machines, at all?


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>> Besides it's called extlinux, not a syslinux.
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> I'm using the universally accepted grandfather name of syslinux which encompasses extlinux and isolinux.
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> Chris Murphy
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