Bug 1653434
| Summary: | grub.cfg default points to wrong entry | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | George R. Goffe <grgoffe> | ||||||
| Component: | grub2 | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | fmartine, jpokorny, lkundrak, pjones, riehecky | ||||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2019-01-29 09:32:48 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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It's fairly possible it's related to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BootLoaderSpecByDefault I also observe a broken pre-selection problem with current Rawhide, see the bottom of [bug 1598523 comment 9]. (In reply to George R. Goffe from comment #0) > Created attachment 1508659 [details] > flat file (/boot/grub2/grub.cfg); no compression... > > Description of problem: > > grub.cfg does NOT point to most recent kernel. Rebuilt grub.cfg with > grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but problem still exists. Current > kernel is 4.20.0-0.rc3.git1.1.fc30.x86_64 > Can you please provide the output of the following commands: grub2-editenv list | grep saved_entry grubby --info ALL grubby --default-kernel Also, can you try setting the default with: grubby --set-default /boot/vmlinuz-4.20.0-0.rc3.git1.1.fc30.x86_64 Or whatever is your latest kernel. If that fail, can you please try to set the saved_entry variable: grub2-editenv - set saved_entry=$id where $id is the "id" field shown by grubby --info ALL. Javier, Thank you for your response. A few days after writing this bug report, I re-installed this system onto a different and larger hard drive. I still have the original hard drive though. The enclosed file is from the "new" system which I suspect doesn't do you any good. In case I'm wrong, I'm including the log of these commands. I can send you files from the older system if you'd like to see them. Just give me a list of their names. Also, in an attempt to resolve the problem, I modified /etc/default/grub (see below). I think that this resolved the problem. I added a commented line "GRUB_SAVEDAFAULT=true" and commented the next line as well. Here's what that file looks like now. GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" #GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true #GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rhgb quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 rd.shell rd.debug log_buf_len=1M" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true I'm concerned that I have muddied the water enough to make trouble shooting difficult to accomplish. I hope not. Thanks again, George... Created attachment 1511906 [details]
uncompressed flat modified script file of commands and output.
I have not seen this problem since reporting this bug (and the reinstall of fc30). Dare I suggest that the problem doesn't exist any more? Thanks for your help! George... Hello George, I’m glad that’s working for you now. Javier, You're welcome and again, thanks for your help/time. George... Closing this bug since the reporter said that it works on the current release. |
Created attachment 1508659 [details] flat file (/boot/grub2/grub.cfg); no compression... Description of problem: grub.cfg does NOT point to most recent kernel. Rebuilt grub.cfg with grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg but problem still exists. Current kernel is 4.20.0-0.rc3.git1.1.fc30.x86_64 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub2-common-2.02-63.fc30.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.see above 2. 3. Actual results: grub2 list of kernels appears but does not point to most current kernel. the default kernel entry is about 8 entries below the current kernel. Expected results: boot produces a grub2 menu of available kernels. the most current kernel is usually/always at the top. Additional info: