Bug 615790

Summary:	grub2's install is incomplete
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tom H <tomh0665>
Component:	grub2	Assignee:	Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tom H 2010-07-18 20:24:52 UTC

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Installing grub2 on a fully-updated but otherwise unmodified F13 Live install doesn't create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg so grub1 cannot chainload grub2 through the "grub2 (1.98)" menu entry.

From http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-July/378396.html

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone installed grub2 on F13?
> If yes, did it work OK?
> did you have to manually modify any files
> in /boot/grub?
> If it did  not work, was it easy to get back
> to legacy grub?

I have just installed grub2 in an f13 vbox (built through an f13 live
cd install) and it looks to me like that:
(1) grub1 is still in control and the mbr is untouched
(2) you can just uninstall grub2 because of (1)

For the record:

Installing grub2 added an entry to the grub1 menu pointing to grub2's
stage 1 img in /boot/grub2.

The grub boot menu remains grub1's and still defaults to the grub1
entry to boot the most recent kernel.

Choosing the grub2 entry fails because there is no grub.cfg.

Creating grub.cfg manually fails because gettext is not installed.

Installing gettext allows you to run "grub2-mkconfig -o
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" to create a grub.cfg and be able to chainload
grub2 from grub1 (I hope that Fedora will eventually add an
"update-grub"/"update-grub2" shell script to run "grub2-mkconfig -o
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg" like Debian/Ubuntu to save us the trouble of
creating it).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F13
2. Install grub2
3.
Actual Results:  
Incomplete install of grub2

Expected Results:  
Install of grub2 and ability to chainload grub2 from grub1

Since installing gettext enable me to create grub.cfg, I assume that having a grub2 dependency on gettext will solve the problem.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2011-06-01 13:31:36 UTC

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2011-06-29 13:19:31 UTC

Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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Comment 3 Tom H 2011-07-03 14:45:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> Installing grub2 on a fully-updated but otherwise unmodified F13 Live install
> doesn't create /boot/grub2/grub.cfg so grub1 cannot chainload grub2 through
> the "grub2 (1.98)" menu entry.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Install F13
> 2. Install grub2
> 3.
> Actual Results:  
> Incomplete install of grub2
> 
> Expected Results:  
> Install of grub2 and ability to chainload grub2 from grub1

Both F14 and F15 have the same issue.

I've downloaded the Rawhide/F16 rpm and ran "rpm -qpR grub2..." and the gettext dependency's listed so it's fixed in the upcoming version of Fedora...