Bug 678453
| Summary: | Grub2 Menu entries doesn't contain the name of distribution | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Hedayat Vatankhah <hedayatv> |
| Component: | grub2 | Assignee: | Peter Jones <pjones> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | awilliam, dennis, lkundrak, pjones, vastone |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Whiteboard: | RejectedNTH | ||
| Fixed In Version: | grub2-1.99-13.fc16 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-12-30 22:55:57 UTC | Type: | --- |
| 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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Description
Hedayat Vatankhah
2011-02-18 00:54:17 UTC
I tried the recommended solution
but received this
/etc/default/grub: command substitution: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Running Fedora 15
using Grub2 as defualt grub loader with os-prober
Please make sure that double quotes (") are really simple ASCII double quotes rather than “ or ” characters. It should fix the problem.
Arrrgghhh I should have seen that... Thank you and sorry for the alarm it worked perfectly.... I thought that it had worked... When I run grub2-mkconfig It shows in terminal the correct output... I also added GRUB_DEFAULT=3 and in terminal it showed it was done correctly But when I reboot, the grub menu looks the same as before any of these changes.. It is as if grub2-mkconfig is not writing to the MBR I confirmed by looking at grub.cfg and it is not updated... Notice that grub2-mkconfig does NOT update grub.cfg automatically. For that, you should tell it to do so, e.g. grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub2.cfg In the interest of closure on this subject and for giving any one else finding it information, I had to do the following to write to the correct grub.cfg... When I setup Fedora grub2, I had to run sudo grub2-install –grub-setup=/bin/true /dev/sda to replace the original Ubuntu grub2 setup To run an update correctly from Fedora now I have to run sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /media/ubunturoot/boot/grub/grub.cfg where /media/ubunturoot is just a mount point I have setup... Thanks for everything! I need to start this all over... sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /media/ubunturoot/boot/grub/grub.cfg writes it to what I am expecting to be the correct grub.cfg and it is there in that file, but none of what is there is showing on the grub menu or the changed I have made to /etc/default/grub What have I done wrong to muck this up so badly? I'm not sure about your specific setup, but probably it is using /boot/grub2/grub.cfg or similar (e.g. /boot/grub/grub.cfg). It is.. I redid the grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub2.cfg to grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and this worked... Thanks The following is better for Fedora 16: GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=$(sed "s/\(.*\) release.*/\1/" /etc/system-release) This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component. Discussed at 2011-09-30 NTH review meeting. Rejected as NTH: this is too trivial a cosmetic issue to be worth taking through a freeze, especially as it involves touching a very critical component (the bootloader). Note that F16 will be unfrozen for some time between Beta release and Final freeze, and per policy you can certainly commit the fix during that time. After installing Fedora 16 Beta, I found that this bug is fixed with the following in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora" There was also some other options like default timeout. However, after updating grub2 package to grub2-1.99-6.fc16.x86_64, all extra lines are gone and only the following line is present in the file: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet rhgb" OK since /etc/default/grub is no longer overwritten by updating grub2, this bug can be considered to be fixed. The only problem is that since /etc/default/grub doesn't match grub2's own file, delta rpm's won't work for grub2 and you are always forced to download the whole package. That doesn't seem like a fix for this bug, as you still have to manually edit default/grub . We should probably just put the GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR line in there in the grub2 package. Yes, I agree. I thought that the maintainer prefers to keep it as is since the fix is very easy... grub2-1.99-13.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/grub2-1.99-13.fc16 Package grub2-1.99-13.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing grub2-1.99-13.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16975/grub2-1.99-13.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback). grub2-1.99-13.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |