[Techtalk] still fedup after fedora upgrade

[Robyn Willison]

Hi Meryll

Congratulations, I'm glad it all worked out for you.

Cheers
Robyn

On 23/11/2014 12:58 PM, Meryll Larkin wrote:
> Thanks Robyn,
>
> Robyn:   Your suggestion helped!  Here is what I did to get my Fedora 20
> booting into linux instead of erroring on linuxefi (because I have BIOS).
>
> 1.  Took your suggestion and copied all my boot files (I used rsync) from my
> /boot partition  into a  directory named /boot_new
> 2.  I was really busy at work and this is a system at home, so rather than
> roll-back existing kernels, I waited for the next kernel upgrade - but did
> not upgrade until...
> 3.  I booted into a Linux rescue USB and commented out the boot partition in
> /etc/fstab and renamed /boot_new to /boot.
> Robyn's idea of the above was that there was something about having a boot
> partition that made my system default to efi  configuration.
>
> 4.  I had an idea of my own.  I examined /etc/grub.d/00_header and noted 2
> modules with efi in their names:  efi_gop and efi_uga
> I ran lsmod and noticed that the two kernel modules with efi in their names
> were not loading on my machine anyway.
> I commented out those two lines in /etc/grub.d/00_header
>
> 5.  I shutdown and booted into Fedora20.  The system recognized the /boot
> directory but my /boot/grub2/grub.cfg still wanted to boot me into linuxefi
> (those were my top two menu items).
> 6.  Did a yum update and rebooted.
> 7.  Nothing changed.  I was still selecting the 3rd menu item down on the
> grub boot menu and it still wanted me to boot to linuxefi.
>
> 8.  Followed directions here to update my /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2?rd=Grub2#Updating_GRUB_2_configuration
> _on_BIOS_systems
> which means that as root, I issued these commands:
>         grub2-install /dev/sda
>        grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>
> Was happy to see no error output.
> 9.  Then rebooted.
> I am now running kernel 3.17.3-200  which is the  current version for Fedora
> 20  and my grub.cfg is fixed.
> This means I can now reboot all the way to a command prompt without manual
> intervention, which is what I needed to achieve.
>
> I don't know which of those steps above were actually necessary.  Maybe they
> all were, or maybe only two of them were; I'll leave that for the engineers.
> Meantime I have a lot of other things to accomplish so that I can have my
> systems running as I want them to.
>
> Now on to learn Systemd....
>
> thanks!
>
> Meryll
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org [mailto:techtalk-bounces at linuxchix.org]
> On Behalf Of Meryll Larkin
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2014 2:23 PM
> To: 'Robyn Willison'; techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: Re: [Techtalk] still fedup after fedora upgrade
>
> Hi Robyn,
>
> To catch you up Robyn, I upgraded from Fedora 13 (where I was perfectly
> happy) to Fedora 20 - at the end of which I said "Hey wait!  I was USING
> that!!"
>
> Yeah - if you call half a Gig , small.  And that is where my grub2 folder
> lives.
>
> You see, I was way ahead of the curve.  I knew those boot files were going
> to get bigger and I planned for it.
>
> [meryll at cedar ~]$ df -kl
> [meryll at cedar ~]$ df -hl
> Filesystem                    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/vg_cedar-lv_root   50G   22G   26G  47% /
> devtmpfs                      2.8G     0  2.8G   0% /dev
> tmpfs                         2.8G   84K  2.8G   1% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                         2.8G  912K  2.8G   1% /run
> tmpfs                         2.8G     0  2.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> tmpfs                         2.8G   40K  2.8G   1% /tmp
> /dev/sda1                     477M  141M  307M  32% /boot
> /dev/mapper/vg_cedar-lv_home  860G  203G  613G  25% /home
>
> What do you think?
>
> Meryll Larkin
>
>
>
>
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