[Fedora-xen] f18 yum update breaks grub2 w/ xen

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Tue Mar 5 21:34:58 UTC 2013


On Tue, 5 Mar 2013, Mike Wright wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> It may be my setup but this is what I found.
>
> Current yum update.
>
> Only breaks xen boots.
>
> Most recent yum upgrade to 3.8.1-201 omits the initramfs line in its 
> grub2.cfg file.
>
> After adding these lines it boots.
>
>     echo    'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
>     module  /initramfs-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64.img

My theory is that this is caused if you update xen and install a kernel at 
the same time and it is actually the kernel update calling grubby that 
causes the problem. Does that sound like that might have happened in your 
case?

 	Michael Young


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