This is a Rawhide 'clone' of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=736993 to see if we can fix it better: an ugly hack is going into F16 anaconda to work around the bug for now. grub2's /etc/grub.d/00_header has this code: if [ "x$serial" = x1 ]; then if ! test -e ${GRUB_PREFIX}/serial.mod ; then echo "Serial terminal not available on this platform." >&2 ; exit 1 fi so if we're using a serial console and GRUB_PREFIX/serial.mod doesn't exist - which it won't, if grub2-install has never been run - mkconfig simply throws a hissy fit and exits. This means that anaconda bootloader installation fails in serial console installs as things stand, because grub2-mkconfig is run before grub2-install, as you'd think would make sense. The ugly hack for F16 is to run grub2-install once before mkconfig and then again afterwards, but he thinks there should be a better 'real fix', hence this bug.
Created attachment 568753 [details] remove serial.mod check
736993 got re-opened for f17, so we can just consider this a real dupe now and follow up there. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 736993 ***