Having upgraded several systems to F16 and F17 the majority have encountered some kind of problem with grub2 and have required regenerating grub.cfg as a remedial step (the specific bugs are tracked elsewhere). This is no longer a simple case of updating /etc/grub.conf. Wiki pages tend to suggest using grub2-mkconfig, grub2-set-default, and grub2-install [1,2]. When one does this it's apparent that this process is *not* exactly what anaconda and yum install kernel do -- manually running this process ends up with extra grub menus including "safe mode"s, submenus, and for the dual-boot systems I've done, multiple entries for Windows. This is not helpful since: - I'm typically trying to tidy up a grub problem and these extra entries cause further confusion for users. - It deviates the configuration even further away from the norm, which then seems to cause second-order problems with grub2. - The only way to tidy this up *seems* to be to edit /boot/grub2/grub.cfg, which doesn't seem desirable. The other use case is just wanting to push through changes -- e.g. to the timeout -- made in /etc/sysconfig/grub (On my most recent upgrade F16->F17 running grub2-mkconfig after install has mysteriously changed the resolution, font, spews a few errors about missing files, and a "press any key to continue") Please document how are normal/standard Fedora grub2 menu config is, and should be, generated. I don't like relying on hearsay from forums :) I know that grubby has something to do with this process, but with grub2 the delta between what grubby produces and what I might generate by hand seems large and less clearly described. If such a page already exists, please link to is from the pages below (which are top hits from google and the wiki). [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Features/Grub2
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