Bug 827569 - grubby updates the wrong config file on rEFIt (BIOS emulation) booted mac
Summary: grubby updates the wrong config file on rEFIt (BIOS emulation) booted mac
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grubby
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-01 19:05 UTC by Matt Hirsch
Modified: 2013-02-13 21:17 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 21:17:11 UTC
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Description Matt Hirsch 2012-06-01 19:05:56 UTC
Description of problem:

I am running Fedora 16 on a mac which is booted from rEFIt (BIOS emulator). I use grub2, and the /boot/grub2/grub.cfg config file. However, grubby updates /boot/grub2-efi/grub.cfg when it runs.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
grubby-8.8-2.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always, as long as /boot/grub2-efi exists.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run grubby to update grub config. For example, this was generated by preupgrade, when upgrading to Fedora 17:

/sbin/grubby --title="Upgrade to Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle)" --remove-kernel="/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz" --add-kernel="/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz" --initrd="/boot/upgrade/initrd.img" --args="preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade  ks=hd:UUID=35d59fb9-2c48-4e33-a8d3-c26776daa750:/upgrade/ks.cfg stage2=http://mirror.cc.vt.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img"
  
Actual results:
grubby modifies /boot/grub2-efi/grub.cfg

Expected results:
grubby modifies /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Additional info:
Ways in which you might detect this:
*Follow the symlink from /etc: e.g. on my system
 /etc/grub2.cfg -> ../boot/grub2/grub.cfg
*Detect which bootloader is installed
*Detect whether the system was booted using efi or the BIOS
e.g. in dmesg, 
DMI: Apple Inc. MacPro3,1/Mac-F42C88C8, BIOS     MP31.88Z.006C.B05.0802291410 02/29/08

I'm not entirely sure about the last one, since I've never booted the system in EFI mode. In previous fedoras it was very difficult to get a fully functioning system to boot using EFI, so many people are probably using rEFIt BIOS emulation.

Also note, that this does not occur when /boot/grub2-efi does not exist. So another workaround is to just uninstall the grub2-efi package.

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