Bug 1370880 - grub2-mkconfig not support sector size 4096
Summary: grub2-mkconfig not support sector size 4096
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grub2
Version: 24
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-08-27 20:47 UTC by Fred J. Tydeman
Modified: 2017-08-08 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-08-08 16:51:56 UTC
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Description Fred J. Tydeman 2016-08-27 20:47:55 UTC
As root, running:
  grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
finds existing Fedora installations, eg,
 Found Fedora release 23 (Twenty Three) on /dev/sdb3
but also gets this error:
  ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sdb.
This is under Fedora 24

/dev/sdb is an external hard disk drive (HDD) attached via USB.
Its sector size is 4096 (and cannot be changed).

This is a fresh install of Fedora 24 via live ISO image.  I have done: 
  dnf update
which updated about 400 programs after the install.

That install of Fedora 24 killed the existing Fedora 23 (which is in
a different partition).  Trying to boot Fedora 23 from the GRUB menu gets:
  error: can't find command 'linux'.
  error: can't find command 'initrd'.

This is a UEFI setup with partitions:
1 /boot/efi
2 swap
3 / of Fedora 23
4 / of Fedora 24

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Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2017-08-08 16:51:56 UTC
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