[lug] Fedora 19, Grub2 Misbehaving

[Orion Poplawski]

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.

 > As of today I don't recall seeing any updates, but grub2
> just started misbehaving, and I'm trying to find out why. In particular,
> if this has happened to anyone else.
> I never have rhgb or quiet, ever. This is one of the first things I rip
> out when I install a new Fedora machine...this machine has not had that
> entry since F19 was "new". Unfortunately, I rebooted once this evening,
> and something has forced this back in without my permission. I checked
> /etc/default/grub, and sure enough it had "rhgb quiet" in it...I didn't
> put it there. I removed this in the config, but of course it somehow has
> forced it into the running config. At the grub prompt during reboot I
> hit "e" to edit, and looked for "rhgb quiet"...it isn't there. If it
> isn't there, how is it still using this? How do I get rid of it without
> messing up all kinds of ancient boot entries which are still needed? Has
> this happened to anyone else today? [FYI, I'm a bit scared of just
> poking around and destroying something in the boot loader]
> Thanks!

I guess I don't quite follow.  Your boots now use the graphical boot, 
but when you edit the boot entry in grub it's not listed there?  I can't 
explain that.

However, I can explain the /etc/default/grub is used by grub2-mkconfig, 
which is not normally used by Fedora tools.  Instead, it uses grubby, 
which bases new kernel entries on the existing current entry.  So you 
can in general, ignore /etc/default/grub, or remove rhgb + quiet from 
there as well in cases someone runs grub2-mkconfig in the future.


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