Bug 1232168
| Summary: | grubby man page does not mention a grub2 option | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Stephen Wadeley <swadeley> |
| Component: | grubby | Assignee: | rmarshall |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | mbanas, pholica, rmarshall, sauchter |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | 7.3 | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | grubby-8.28-18 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2016-11-04 07:52:24 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The man page has been updated with the missing options. grubby may be used on the command line, however, it was indeed designed to be called from scripts. The verbage will not change at this time. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2525.html |
Description of problem: The grubby(8) manual page has: [--grub] [--lilo] [--yaboot] [--silo] [--zipl] but no mention of a grub2 option, or of GRUB 2 being the default when the command is used. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@localhost ~]# rpm -q grubby grubby-8.28-11.el7.x86_64 Actual results: Expected results: I expected to see a --grub2 option or an explanation that this is the default and that therefore there is no such option. The current man page leaves room for uncertainty. Additional info: ------------------ The grubby man page says: "It is primarily designed to be used from scripts which install new kernels ..." and: "BUGS The command line syntax is more than a little baroque. This probably won't be fixed as grubby is only intended to be called from shell scripts which can get it right." ------------------------------------------ This text is at odds with the explanation in BZ#1149275 that grubby is the preferred tool for editing grub.cfg Please change this text to make it clear that it not only *can* but *should* be used for manual updates to grub.cfg Thank you