dracut/grubby fails to update grub.cfg

Mickey binarynut at comcast.net
Thu Oct 23 00:05:23 UTC 2014


On 10/22/2014 05:14 PM, Stefan Huchler wrote:
> Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> writes:
>
>
> So first of all, I am thankful that u helped me to understand the
> problem I was shure I somehow on a interupted dnf process or something I
> damaged something in fedora, because I did not remember or notice that
> it did not update grub from the beginning.
>
> Maybe I make a switch back to archlinux as another option. I really like
> much in fedora, but here and there are some edges I would like to use
> Arch again, like wanted to try gnome-i3, stole the files from AUR zip
> file and tried to copy em to the propriete places but instead of
> starting i3 with gnome-session or something like that it just startet
> normal gnome.
>
> So off-topic and I dont want a solution for that, just saying here and
> there u have some disadvantages and this is maybe just another one, if
> there are enough of them I will maybe switch. But of course nobody cares
> if I switch thats ok, no problem with that, dont switch to show you that
> fedora sucks or something like that, just when I do, I do it because it
> fits my needs more.
>
>
>> What you're doing isn't likely to ever be supported, because it's a
>> non-partition disk. Right now and for the foreseeable future, the
>> supported layouts will be MBR partitioned on BIOS systems when drives
>> are < 2TB; and GPT in all other cases.
> So the Grub people added this feature for nobody, for theoretical
> persons who dont exist and me?
>
>> By the way, the GPT partition scheme is defined in UEFI, so good luck
>> totally avoiding it (you can avoid it if you don't need to partition
>> large drives but many people do need to.)
> lets be real redhat devs are not really happy about uefi too, but they
> dont see a way around it, because they cant force vendors to sell
> different hardware, for me one reason to choose fedora over archlinux
> was the commitment to free software, so hardwaredongels and proprietary
> root-operating systems where linux run only as process 1 not 0 basicly
> are not on my most-wanted list. I know bios had the same problems, but
> at least they had less lines of code and did not do so much.
>
> BTW secure boot is a peace of shit, yes its for a few people a good
> feature, but in reallity how many got such a bootloader rootkit
> 0.000001% of all people? I never heard of anybody have such thing, it
> happens maybe if nsa wants to crack some iran atom plants, but a normal
> user cant even get affected because if they only use linux nobody finds
> a executable linux file with such stuff on it, but it will make millions
> of users complicate or they just will not install linux.
>
> So its obvious for what this feature is there, what its main goal is.
>
> like power management acpi shit sounds a good idea but was proven payed
> thing from microsoft (Halloween documents) to make linux suck on
> laptops.
>
> But ok I donnt want to flame here or something, just find it stupid that
> there is a fix for grubby but nobody pulls that patch and integrates it
> into fc21.
>
> I just dont like it, that u cant make yourself a bootable system or fix
> a broken grub2 because nobody understands anymore whats happen between
> the 500 partitions with magic block sizes and 20 commands to 50
> different boot phases to them.
>
> Its so buggy everything you can have a fdsik partionon scheme and gpt
> scheme in cfdisk at the same time and stuff like that. It all just went
> from pretty easy to totaly hypercomplicated for no positive point except
> anti-linux-boot feature.
>
> So ok I stop here, its just u write much opinions into your posts too,
> besides the usefull information, so I had to answer to them.
>
> I am kind of ok with the answers to my specific problem. But of course I
> am not totaly happy with a WONTFIX or ITSAFEATURE thing.
>
> Sorry if I sound aggressive or something... :)
>
I don't have uefi on my box and I'am getting the same error message that 
pops up in the Notification Jobs in my system tray.


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