[lug] Fedora 19, Grub2 Misbehaving

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 02:33:57 +0000 (UTC)
stimits at comcast.net wrote:

> ...
> On 03/17/2015 06:47 PM, stimits at comcast.net wrote:>> I know F19 is
> old, but it still has updates available, and my system is>> updated
> daily. 
> >It doesn't. No new updates to F19 are released any more.
>  
> I guess that's why I haven't noticed any updates recently :)

Yeah, as of january 6th:  
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2015-January/003248.html

> I guess that is the question then...where is the right place to
> edit? /boot/grub2/ no longer has a menu file except for one that says
> "don't edit this it is automatically generated" (or something close
> to that). Additionally, I do not see "rhgb" or "quiet" in any of the
> files within /boot/grub2/. There seems to be some sort of "saved"
> menu it uses, but it is not plain english and does not have anything
> recognizable as rhgb or quiet or user-editable entries. Is it safe to
> use grub2-mkconfig and not erase or overwrite existing entries? I'm
> getting frustrated figuring out how this "feature" is being turned on
> and being wary of killing my boot loader on my only working machine
> which dual boots.

If the machine dual boots, are you sure you are changing the right grub
config? Perhaps the grub thats being used is reading it's config from
another OS/boot partition?

On Fedora at least you should be able to directly edit 
/boot/grub2/grub.cfg or /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg and then grubby
will use the default entry when adding new kernels (which shouldn't
actually be a problem as there will never be any new kernels for f19). 

kevin
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