On Wed Apr16'25 12:59:45AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:59:45 +0100
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI syste
> > Is the command called something else?
>
> FYI: There a a number of ways to answer this question yourself.
>
> 1. ls /usr/bin/*fwupd*
> 2. rpm -ql fwupd
>
> I use the rpm -ql frequently when I'm not sure what an RPM installed and
> where it put it.
>
Thanks very much for this information!
Ranjan Maitra:
>> It is my understanding that my GRUB2 is installed on UEFI systems.
Marco Moock:
> In most cases it is, as it also provides an EFI bootloader that can
> boot Linux. Even if there are ways to boot the Linux kernel directly
> from the UEFI, most operating systems shi
> On 16 Apr 2025, at 00:54, Ranjan Maitra via users
> wrote:
>
> $ sudo fwupd
> sudo: fwupd: command not found
>
> However, fwupd is installed. Why can it not be found?
>
> $ sudo dnf install fwupd
> Updating and loading repositories:
> Repositories loaded.
> Package "fwupd-1.9.29-1.fc41.x86
On Wed Apr16'25 12:38:41AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> From: Patrick O'Callaghan
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:38:41 +0100
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI syste
nity support for Fedora users
> > Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading
> >
> > On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:00 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> > > Thanks! But I get fwupd: command not found.
> > >
> > > Is that not
On Tue, 2025-04-15 at 18:00 -0500, Ranjan Maitra via users wrote:
> Thanks! But I get fwupd: command not found.
>
> Is that not different from an update not found?
>
$ rpm -qi fwupd
Name: fwupd
Version : 1.9.29
Release : 1.fc41
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Thu 20 Mar 2025 09
On Wed Apr16'25 12:20:56AM, greg wrote:
> From: greg
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:20:56 +0200
> To: Community support for Fedora users
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI systems while upgrading
>
> >
> Why do I get fwupd not found?
The commands to use - as root - are:
# fwupdmgr get-updates
If updates are available for any devices on the system, they'll be displayed.
# fwupdmgr update
This will download and apply all updates for your system.
(Taken from
/usr/share/doc/fwupd/README.md)
Also t
Thanks for your response!
On Tue Apr15'25 09:07:27PM, Marco Moock wrote:
> From: Marco Moock
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:07:27 +0200
> To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users
> Subject: Re: updating the GRUB bootloader on EFI sys
> On 15 Apr 2025, at 19:59, Ranjan Maitra via users
> wrote:
>
> However, the installed or embedded bootloaders are never updated
> automatically.
If you mean the fedora efi code; it is updated in /boot/efi when there is a
change.
I have personally verified this works recently.
Barry
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ever updated
> automatically.
The UEFI firmware is being provided by the system/mainboard
manufacturer.
fwupd provides a way to update the UEFI if the vendor supports it.
> It is my understanding that my GRUB2 is installed on UEFI systems.
In most cases it is, as it also provides an EFI bootlo
According to
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/
systems with the BIOS firmware have the GRUB RPM packages updated. However, the
installed or embedded bootloaders are never updated automatically.
It is my understanding that my GRUB2 is installed on UEFI sy
On 13/3/25 18:16, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 3/12/25 2:20 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
In /etc/default/grub is the following line, that line causes grub to
boot off, I think, the first entry in the grub menus and to not show
the menus at all. If you change the entry to "false" instead of
"true" and ru
On 13/3/25 19:11, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
On 13 Mar 2025 at 0:17, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:17:44 -0700
Subject:Re: Fresh install Fedora 41. Bootloader Problem.
Camina Shell/Barry
Scott/Samual Sieb/Jeffrey Walton/Tim. On
> On 13 Mar 2025, at 07:18, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> Even if you get it to show on the menu, recent versions of windows will not
> successfully boot from grub.
True if you have bitlocker enabled in windows.
But if you are not using bitlocker then grub can boot windows.
I do this with my dual bo
On 13 Mar 2025 at 0:17, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:17:44 -0700
Subject:Re: Fresh install Fedora 41. Bootloader Problem.
Camina Shell/Barry
Scott/Samual Sieb/Jeffrey Walton/Tim. On Dell
Inspiron 3721
To: users
On 3/12/25 2:11 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
Second, the latest released grub2 has an issue with windows ntfs
regular partitions, and doesn't create grub menu entries. Works
with UEFI windows thou.
There is an updated version of grub2 in updates-testing repo, and
atleast on my two n
On 3/12/25 2:20 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
In /etc/default/grub is the following line, that line causes grub to
boot off, I think, the first entry in the grub menus and to not show the
menus at all. If you change the entry to "false" instead of "true" and
run grub2-mkconfig to get it to take eff
On 13/3/25 06:01, Ger van Dijck wrote:
Hay all of You,
Thanks for help and answering. The problem is simple . The fresh
install of Fedora 41 no problem. The menu of the booatloader is the
problem and I do understand this is kwown. (See mail Camina Shell)
After the succesfull fresh install
On 12 Mar 2025 at 20:01, Ger van Dijck wrote:
Date sent: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:01:47 +0100
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
From: Ger van Dijck
Subject:Fresh install Fedora 41. Bootloader Problem.
Camina Shell/Barry
Scott
> On 12 Mar 2025, at 19:02, Ger van Dijck wrote:
>
> So the final question is : Where is GRUB ?
By default I believe grub menu is hidden.
You can edit grub env config to always show the menu.
If hold down SHIFT key while booting the grub menu should appear.
Barry
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Hay all of You,
Thanks for help and answering. The problem is simple . The fresh install
of Fedora 41 no problem. The menu of the booatloader is the problem and
I do understand this is kwown. (See mail Camina Shell)
After the succesfull fresh install I get the bootmenu : First Kernel
in
On 12/4/21 19:39, Adam Mercer wrote:
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 7:12 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
No OS should touch any files it doesn't own in the ESP. Did it really
remove the bootloader? A more likely option is that it changed the BIOS
boot order. Can you bring up the boot menu? Do you se
On Sat, 4 Dec 2021 at 20:40, Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 7:12 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> > No OS should touch any files it doesn't own in the ESP. Did it really
> > remove the bootloader? A more likely option is that it changed the BIOS
> > boot
On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 7:12 PM Samuel Sieb wrote:
> No OS should touch any files it doesn't own in the ESP. Did it really
> remove the bootloader? A more likely option is that it changed the BIOS
> boot order. Can you bring up the boot menu? Do you see the Fedora
> option th
On 12/4/21 15:04, Adam Mercer wrote:
I dual boot my Fedora 35 system with Windows 10 and a Windows update
decided to remove the Fedora bootloader and I can no longer boot into
Linux.
No OS should touch any files it doesn't own in the ESP. Did it really
remove the bootloader? A more l
Hi
I dual boot my Fedora 35 system with Windows 10 and a Windows update
decided to remove the Fedora bootloader and I can no longer boot into
Linux.
I've booted from the Live CD and chrooted into my system after
mounting /boot and /boot/efi, I've then been following the
instructions he
On 5/1/20 1:32 PM, sean darcy wrote:
I got here with:
dnf system-upgrade download
dnf system-upgrade reboot
Then what was that comment about the installer failing? Did you mean
the boot?
grub shows the FC32 kernel. When I boot from that fc32 kernel, I get
this LoaderDevicePartUUID error.
On 5/1/20 3:03 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 4/30/20 6:44 AM, sean darcy wrote:
The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI
partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is
not setup.
This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31.
You say "
On 4/30/20 6:44 AM, sean darcy wrote:
The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI
partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is
not setup.
This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31.
You say "installer", but then you say &quo
On 4/30/20 9:44 AM, sean darcy wrote:
The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI
partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is
not setup.
This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31.
Before that error, and maybe related to it, ther
The F32 installer fails. systemd-gpt-auto-generator can't find the EFI
partition because the bootloader did not set it. Therefore sysroot is
not setup.
This is an Acer laptop, upgrading from F31.
Before that error, and maybe related to it, there are errors loading 2
X.509 certificates.
the "location" parameter says, that's where stage 1.5 of the
bootloader is going to be installed.
There also doesn't seem to be a stage 1.5 any more these days:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Images
Thanks for your help though.
Cheers!
Hi Gordon,
On 12.04.20 09:07, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> To answer the question in the subject: The bootloader is installed on the
> /boot/efi filesystem, and referenced by path in NVRAM (See the "efibootmgr"
> command).
Thanks! Didn't know about efibootmgr. And you&#
On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 12:45 AM spike wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm installing Fedora 31 with a kickstart file that contains
>
> bootloader --location=mbr #Same when omitting location parameter, mbr is
> default
> zerombr
> clearpart --all
> part /boot/efi --fstype=efi
To answer the question in the subject: The bootloader is installed on
the /boot/efi filesystem, and referenced by path in NVRAM (See the
"efibootmgr" command).
On 4/7/20 10:44 PM, spike wrote:
I'm installing Fedora 31 with a kickstart file that contains
bootloader --location
Hi,
I'm installing Fedora 31 with a kickstart file that contains
bootloader --location=mbr #Same when omitting location parameter, mbr is default
zerombr
clearpart --all
part /boot/efi --fstype=efi --size=200 --ondisk=sda
part / --fstype=ext4 --size=1--ondisk=sda --grow
Acco
On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> Have you considered unplugging the drives, and re-plugging them in
>>> the opposite order? Of course that may entail fiddling with grub so
>>> drive 2 is drive 1, so to speak.
>
> Amadeus W.M.:
>> No, I don't want to do that because each driv
Tim:
>> Have you considered unplugging the drives, and re-plugging them in
>> the opposite order? Of course that may entail fiddling with grub so
>> drive 2 is drive 1, so to speak.
Amadeus W.M.:
> No, I don't want to do that because each drive is in fact a raid array
> with two physical disks ea
h the intent of using the first drive for data
>> only. So now I have two perfectly good F23s installed on separate
>> drives and I can boot either one of them. I want to
>>
>> 1) remove the bootloader from the first disk 2) reformat the system
>> partitions on th
e intent of using the first drive for data
>> only. So now I have two perfectly good F23s installed on separate
>> drives and I can boot either one of them. I want to
>>
>> 1) remove the bootloader from the first disk 2) reformat the system
>> partitions on the first disk
ith the intent of using the first drive for data only. So now
>> I have two perfectly good F23s installed on separate drives and I can
>> boot either one of them. I want to
>>
>> 1) remove the bootloader from the first disk
>> 2) reformat the system partitions on the firs
w I have two perfectly good F23s installed on separate
> drives and I can boot either one of them. I want to
>
> 1) remove the bootloader from the first disk
> 2) reformat the system partitions on the first disk
> 3) keep and expand the data partitions from the first disk
Have yo
installed on separate drives and I can
boot either one of them. I want to
1) remove the bootloader from the first disk
2) reformat the system partitions on the first disk
3) keep and expand the data partitions from the first disk
I know how to do 2 and 3, but I need to know how to do 1 without losing
either one of them. I want to
1) remove the bootloader from the first disk
2) reformat the system partitions on the first disk
3) keep and expand the data partitions from the first disk
I know how to do 2 and 3, but I need to know how to do 1 without losing
the partition table.
The reason I
o CSM) with secure boot
> enabled and while it booted the USB stick fine after the initial reboot I
> get an error about the bootloader not being signed and have to disable
> secure boot in order to boot the machine. I did a search on Bugzilla for
> the error message and didn't fin
On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:38 PM, patrick korsnick wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just did a fresh f20 install in UEFI mode (no CSM) with secure boot enabled
> and while it booted the USB stick fine after the initial reboot I get an
> error about the bootloader not being signed and have to di
4 10:51 PM
To: "Community support for Fedora users"
Subject: Re: stock f20 bootloader not signed
Hi Madhurjya,
As I understand it Fedora paid Microsoft to register their key so Secure Boot
does indeed work with Fedora. See AdamW's talk below for more info- the secure
boot su
ug 12, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Madhurjya Roy
wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> It's not a bug! Actually, most of the laptops that come preinstalled with
> Windows 8/8.1 come with secure boot. It's just a feature that is used to
> verify the signature on Windows Bootloader!
>
>
Hello Patrick,
It's not a bug! Actually, most of the laptops that come preinstalled with
Windows 8/8.1 come with secure boot. It's just a feature that is used to verify
the signature on Windows Bootloader!
Secure Boot is not meant to verify signature of Linux bootloader (GRUB) an
Hi all,
I just did a fresh f20 install in UEFI mode (no CSM) with secure boot
enabled and while it booted the USB stick fine after the initial reboot I
get an error about the bootloader not being signed and have to disable
secure boot in order to boot the machine. I did a search on Bugzilla for
y installs grub on an
explicitly targeted installation device (drive). So if for example sda wasn't
specified as a target device, it will not get grub installed or reinstalled or
a prior bootloader overwritten. If only sdb was specified for installation,
then the bootloader is only install
itional storage.
Installing F14,15,&16 on sdb (with nothing bootable on sda) was never a
problem. F20 seemed to be unable to update the bootloader properly (even
though - on a second install, which I watched this time - it said
"Installing Bootloader").
Doing grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/gr
e sda drive as additional storage.
Installing F14,15,&16 on sdb (with nothing bootable on sda) was never a
problem. F20 seemed to be unable to update the bootloader properly (even
though - on a second install, which I watched this time - it said
"Installing Bootloader").
Doing grub2
d the bootloader properly.
What are the steps for getting F20 to boot (while, if possible still
giving me the option to boot into F16)?
OK - So now I'm really flummoxed. Here's what I did:
I booted into the F16 install. I ran os-prober which found the new F20
kernel on the other partition (it
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 12:17 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> The reboot put me back into my old F16 install (at least I know that
> hasn't been screwed up!) with the grub menu offering me only varying
> kernels from F16.
>
> It seems F20 has not installed the bootloader properl
back, the
screen was informing me that Fedora 20 had been successfully installed -
reboot to start using it.
The reboot put me back into my old F16 install (at least I know that
hasn't been screwed up!) with the grub menu offering me only varying
kernels from F16.
It seems F20 has not installed the b
On 09/08/2013 08:30 AM, Doctor Who wrote:
I have a machine on which I want to install Fedora 19. During the
install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where'
other than a disk (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb). I use a 3rd party tool to
multi boot, so I would like the
On 09/10/2013 02:20 PM, Doctor Who wrote:
Thanks. The 3rd party tool is GAG. Horrible name, but it works nicely.
Shame about the Fedora installer not providing this level of granularity
on the install. Sounds like the option for 'no boot loader' and then
install later would have to be the
On 08.09.2013 14:30, Doctor Who wrote:
> I have a machine on which I want to install Fedora 19. During the
> install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where'
> other than a disk (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb). I use a 3rd party tool to multi
> boot, so I wo
a 19. During the
>>> install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where'
>>> other than a disk (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb). I use a 3rd party tool to multi
>>> boot, so I would like the boot loader to be installed on /dev/sdb1.
>>>
hi who,
On 09/09/2013 09:15 PM, Doctor Who wrote:
So does anyone know if this is possible?
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Doctor Who wrote:
I have a machine on which I want to install Fedora 19. During the
install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where&#
So does anyone know if this is possible?
AFAICT, this is not easily possible anymore with recent Fedoras's
installer. However, IIRC, there still is an option to skip installing
the bootloader (ATM, I can't check), which would allow to manually
install the bootloader (grub2) late
nt to install Fedora 19. During the
>> install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where'
>> other than a disk (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb). I use a 3rd party tool to multi
>> boot, so I would like the boot loader to be installed on /dev/sdb1.
>>
&
So does anyone know if this is possible?
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Doctor Who wrote:
> I have a machine on which I want to install Fedora 19. During the
> install, I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where'
> other than a disk (/dev/sda, /dev/
I have a machine on which I want to install Fedora 19. During the install,
I'm given the option to install a bootloader, but not 'where' other than a
disk (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb). I use a 3rd party tool to multi boot, so I
would like the boot loader to be installed on /dev/sdb1.
I
The new Anaconda installer still doesn't allow for the creation of a bootloader
password during installation, so I'm trying to figure out how to do this on a
running system.
Section 2.3 of the Fedora 19 Security Guide openly admits to being deprecated,
so I am trying to use it to som
Emmett Culley webengineer.com> writes:
> I can say for sure that this time I found the installation UI (anaconda?)
not only easy to use, but pretty darn
> good looking as well. Of course, like many on this list I also found it
to be less flexible when selecting
> what I want installed. Like you
ut when I returned to the machine it appeared to be stuck on
"installing bootloader". I don't remember if it was "configuring" or
"installing" the bootloader. I noted that the action indicator was not
turning, but as I didn't know how long it had been doing
Hi! I try to install fedora 18 (fresh install not update) and after
custom partitioning (which was NOT obvious to choose) i receive this error :
"you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device
sda2 must have one of the following disklabel types :gpt."
the former / (sda2) i che
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:36 AM, shailesh wrote:
>
>
> I was installing fresh copy of fedora 17. I used /dev/sda, where the
> windows 7 exists, as bootloader drive. At the end of the installation of
> packages, error is coming "There was an error installing the bootloader.
I was installing fresh copy of fedora 17. I used /dev/sda, where the windows 7
exists, as bootloader drive. At the end of the installation of packages, error
is coming "There was an error installing the bootloader. The system may
not be bootable"
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Am 09.02.2012 16:37, schrieb Patrick Dupre:
> After a fresh install, I can only boot by using a supergrub2 CD
> I looks like that the system does not boot by sing the mbr
> How can I rebuilt a mbr to have the bios boot on sda?
you need to provide ANY information about your OS
* at least Fedora
Hello,
After a fresh install, I can only boot by using a supergrub2 CD
I looks like that the system does not boot by sing the mbr
How can I rebuilt a mbr to have the bios boot on sda?
Thank.
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On Tue, January 24, 2012 12:07 pm, Chris Caudle wrote:
> The bootloader was not installed properly during a F15->F16
> upgrade, so I'm hoping someone on this list can point me in
> the correct direction to recover.
I have more detailed error information now, and I'm pre
On 01/25/2012 04:07 AM, Chris Caudle wrote:
The bootloader was not installed properly during a F15->F16 upgrade, so
I'm hoping someone on this list can point me in the correct direction to
recover.
I had a F15 system which also has a Windows partition.
The disks (actual logical units o
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:07 -0600, Chris Caudle wrote:
> The bootloader was not installed properly during a F15->F16 upgrade, so
> I'm hoping someone on this list can point me in the correct direction to
> recover.
>
> I had a F15 system which also has a Windows partiti
The bootloader was not installed properly during a F15->F16 upgrade, so
I'm hoping someone on this list can point me in the correct direction to
recover.
I had a F15 system which also has a Windows partition.
The disks (actual logical units on a RAID controller) are like this:
first:
MBR regenerated
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[mailto:users-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of anees a a
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 8:10 AM
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: bootloader lost
I had fedora installed on system
i installed windows7 after that
now
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 09:09 +0530, anees a a wrote:
> I had fedora installed on system
> i installed windows7 after that
> now i lost bootloader of fedora & i cant access fedora now
> there is no option of live cd in fedora installation disk
> but only rescue installed system o
When you boot in recue mode, let it mount the fedora partion.
I think it mounts it as /mnt/system
what you do is
chroot /mnt/system
then
grub-install --recheck
and take it from there
On 7/4/10, anees a a wrote:
> how to reinstall boot loader in rescue mode
>
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> how to reinstall boot loader in rescue mode
Hi,
search Google: fedora rescue mode
http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/158-System-Recovery-Week-Rescue-Mode-and-Reinstalling-Grub.html
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On 07/05/10 06:29, anees a a wrote:
>
>
> how to reinstall boot loader in rescue mode
>
after having started the rescue mode (don't forget "chroot
/mnt/sysimage"), enter
"grub-install . /dev/sda" for example.
/dev/sda is disk which should contain the b
On 07/05/2010 12:29 AM, anees a a wrote:
>
>
> how to reinstall boot loader in rescue mode
>
First you need to find your old disk partitions, and mount them under
/mnt/sysimage
second, chroot to /mnt/sysimage
third run grub-install with the appropriate arguments for you system to
re-install g
how to reinstall boot loader in rescue mode
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On 07/04/2010 11:39 PM, anees a a wrote:
> I had fedora installed on system
> i installed windows7 after that
> now i lost bootloader of fedora & i cant access fedora now
> there is no option of live cd in fedora installation disk
> but only rescue installed system option
>
I had fedora installed on system
i installed windows7 after that
now i lost bootloader of fedora & i cant access fedora now
there is no option of live cd in fedora installation disk
but only rescue installed system option
pls suggest solutions to boot fedora
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