Bug 634030

Summary: After software update which includes a new kernel the system will not boot.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jim Bean <jimbean2633>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Beth Nackashi <bnackash>
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Description Jim Bean 2010-09-14 23:55:16 UTC
The GRUB menu is displayed. If the top entry is selected the system will not boot, IE an underscore is displayed and it freezes. This has happened on the last two kernel replacements. I can select the third kernel on the GRUB menu and it will boot normally. The updater seems to not be configuring the GRUB environment correctly. I notice that the generated config files for the two which do not boot are almost identical and are very different from the config file of the one that does boot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
The kernels which do not boot are:
2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64
2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64
Kernel 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64 boots OK.

I enclose the grub.conf:
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
#          initrd /boot/initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sda3
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64 ro root=UUID=a5fdc2de-f7db-
43c0-b332-b597e8764cd7 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 S
YSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.34.6-54.fc13.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64 ro root=UUID=a5fdc2de-f7db-
43c0-b332-b597e8764cd7 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 S
YSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.34.6-47.fc13.x86_64.img
title Fedora (2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64 ro root=UUID=a5fdc2de-f7db
-43c0-b332-b597e8764cd7 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64.img
title Other
	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1

Comment 1 Jim Bean 2010-09-22 00:16:01 UTC
Sep 21, 10
Latest update included kernel 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64.
I moved kernel 2.6.33.8-149.fc13.x86_64 to the front of the grub.conf file
and accepted the update. Again the new kernel was placed at the front of the grub.conf file and it will not boot. As before selecting the now second entry at boot time boots the 33.8-149 kernel OK.
Again the generated config files are the same for the 34.7-56 and the 34.6.54 and the 33.8-149 file is very different. The config files state that they are generated but not what generates them. I suspect that whatever is generating the new config file is not doing its job correctly.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2011-05-31 13:29:01 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2011-06-28 12:50:44 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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