rebooting with new kernel
Paul Cartwright
pbcartwright at gmail.com
Mon Jul 13 10:16:59 UTC 2015
On 07/12/2015 11:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> problem is, only a blinking cursor, no grub menu.. that's my problem.
>> I know how to edit grub menus using e.. since I have multiple ( mostly
>> linux) OSes, grub gets updated every now & then, and I use "e" to make
>> sure I am booting the latest kernel.
> kernel update RPMs call new-kernel-pkg which in turn call grubby, but
> none of that stuff ever touches any installed bootloader code. The
> only thing modified is the grub.cfg. I don't know how/why, but it's
> possible the modification of the grub.cfg is actually corrupting it
> but then GRUB should complain if it can't parse grub.cfg
>
> Sounds like this is a computer with BIOS firmware. On BIOS, Fedora
> puts grub.cfg at /boot/grub2/, and on UEFI it's at
> /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/.
>
>
mine was Windows 7, so it is BIOS.. I always do grub2-mkconfig -o
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg
before I do the next update I'll copy grub.cfg, then run the update &
diff.. now, waiting for the next new kernel:)
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Paul Cartwright
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