Bug 242909

Summary:	Grub not updated properly on FC6 to F7 upgrade with xen kernels
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark Haney <mark.haney>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	7	CC:	bill-bugzilla.redhat.com, triage
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Description Mark Haney 2007-06-06 12:38:51 UTC

Description of problem:
On an upgrade to F7 from FC6, if the xen kernel is installed (and listed first
in grub.conf) then after the upgrade, the FC6 xen kernel is still listed and a
reboot fails.  You must either edit grub manually or reboot and select the
correct kernel from the menu.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
N/A

How reproducible:
Happened on both systems with xen and FC6 upgraded to F7.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Xen on FC6 system
2.upgrade to F7
3.reboot -- fails
  
Actual results:
Expected grub to be updated properly to remove the previous version xen kernel
(at the very least move it down in boot priority).


Expected results:
Should be able to reboot into latest xen kernel automatically from grub without
manual editing or selecting from menu.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Mark Haney 2007-06-08 12:33:34 UTC

I just got around to do several upgrades from FC6 to F7 at home on my i386
systems (intel p4's) and one of my AMD Athlon 64 boxes.  In each case, and
WITHOUT any xen kernels ever installed on those systems), grub failed to update
properly and I had to remove the existing default boot option pointing to the
old FC6 kernel.

So, this isn't a problem with just xen kernels and upgrading.  It seems to be
upgrading in general.

Comment 2 Bill McGonigle 2007-06-11 04:23:38 UTC

FWIW, I've got grub not updating kernels under xen on fc6 from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20.

#sudo /sbin/grub-install /dev/md0:

Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.

# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0)     /dev/sda
(hd1)     /dev/sdb



menu.lst:

default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2948.fc6xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6xen ro root=/dev/md2
        module /initrd-2.6.20-1.2948.fc6xen.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2869.fc6xen)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6
        module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6xen ro root=/dev/md2
        module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6xen.img

The grub screen doesn't show 2.6.20 when booting.  SELinux is disabled.

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