Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 27/11/22 15:25, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 18:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/22/22 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 12:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot me

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-26 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 18:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/22/22 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 12:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this m

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-24 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 18:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/22/22 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 12:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this m

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-24 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 18:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/22/22 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 12:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this m

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 18:22, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/22/22 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 12:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this m

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 24/11/22 05:35, Lester M Petrie wrote: On 11/23/22 02:24, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/21/22 14:12, Stephen Morris wrote: F37 the grub-gfxmode statement in /etc/default/grub that worked fine in F36 does not work in F37 even though the associated statements are added to grub.cfg, they seem to

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-23 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 18:24, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/21/22 14:12, Stephen Morris wrote: These issues seem to be tied to the fact that F37 is now booting with Grub and not with what F36 was booting with (possibly systemd?), and in It has been grub for a very long time. I know the boot menus have been g

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-23 Thread Lester M Petrie
On 11/23/22 02:24, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/21/22 14:12, Stephen Morris wrote: F37 the grub-gfxmode statement in /etc/default/grub that worked fine in F36 does not work in F37 even though the associated statements are added to grub.cfg, they seem to be being ignored (I'm thinking about raising

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/21/22 14:12, Stephen Morris wrote: These issues seem to be tied to the fact that F37 is now booting with Grub and not with what F36 was booting with (possibly systemd?), and in It has been grub for a very long time. F37 the grub-gfxmode statement in /etc/default/grub that worked fine in

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/22/22 22:45, Stephen Morris wrote: On 23/11/22 12:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this means and why it is occurring in F37 whe

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-22 Thread Stephen Morris
On 23/11/22 12:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote: I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this means and why it is occurring in F37 when it was never produced in F36, and what

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/20/22 23:54, Stephen Morris wrote:     I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this means and why it is occurring in F37 when it was never produced in F36, and what I need to do to rectify it?        

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-22 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:12:00 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:54:49 +1100 > > Stephen Morris wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >>     I am getting the following error message displayed before the > >> display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this > >> means and

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-21 Thread Stephen Morris
On 22/11/22 02:25, stan via users wrote: On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:54:49 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: Hi,     I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this means and why it is occurring in F37 when it was never pr

Re: Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-21 Thread stan via users
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:54:49 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > Hi, >     I am getting the following error message displayed before the > display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this > means and why it is occurring in F37 when it was never produced in > F36, and what I need to

Strange Error Message Issued Before Display of Themed Grub Menu

2022-11-20 Thread Stephen Morris
Hi,     I am getting the following error message displayed before the display of the grub boot menu, can someone explain to me what this means and why it is occurring in F37 when it was never produced in F36, and what I need to do to rectify it?                 error: ../../grub-core/kern/efi

Re: New error message when selecting Windows Boot Loader from the GRUB menu

2022-08-07 Thread Stephen Morris
On 5/8/22 16:15, Scott Beamer wrote: On 8/4/22 7:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, at 6:39 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: Greetings, After a recent Fedora 36 update, I'm getting an error message when selecting "Windows Boot Manager" from the GRUB menu.  Instead of b

Re: New error message when selecting Windows Boot Loader from the GRUB menu

2022-08-05 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 8/5/22 02:15, Scott Beamer wrote: On 8/4/22 7:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, at 6:39 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: Greetings, After a recent Fedora 36 update, I'm getting an error message when selecting "Windows Boot Manager" from the GRUB menu.  Instead of b

Re: New error message when selecting Windows Boot Loader from the GRUB menu

2022-08-04 Thread Scott Beamer
On 8/4/22 7:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, at 6:39 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: Greetings, After a recent Fedora 36 update, I'm getting an error message when selecting "Windows Boot Manager" from the GRUB menu.  Instead of booting like it had previously, it giv

Re: New error message when selecting Windows Boot Loader from the GRUB menu

2022-08-04 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, at 6:39 PM, Scott Beamer wrote: > Greetings, > > After a recent Fedora 36 update, I'm getting an error message when > selecting "Windows Boot Manager" from the GRUB menu.  Instead of booting > like it had previously, it gives me an almost blan

Re: New error message when selecting Windows Boot Loader from the GRUB menu

2022-08-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/4/22 15:39, Scott Beamer wrote: After a recent Fedora 36 update, I'm getting an error message when selecting "Windows Boot Manager" from the GRUB menu.  Instead of booting like it had previously, it gives me an almost blank screen with the following text in

New error message when selecting Windows Boot Loader from the GRUB menu

2022-08-04 Thread Scott Beamer
Greetings, After a recent Fedora 36 update, I'm getting an error message when selecting "Windows Boot Manager" from the GRUB menu.  Instead of booting like it had previously, it gives me an almost blank screen with the following text in the upper left:     /EndEntire And

Re: Boot hang after grub menu

2022-02-27 Thread greg
t sequence continues for some time using VGA mode, so the driver shouldn't > come into play at that > point in the boot process. > > Booting with the 1030, the USB keyboard turns off after a selection is made > from the grub menu, but > it comes back on in about a second. I

Boot hang after grub menu

2022-02-26 Thread C Linus Hicks
to play at that point in the boot process. Booting with the 1030, the USB keyboard turns off after a selection is made from the grub menu, but it comes back on in about a second. I saw one hint regarding the 1650 related to secure boot, since disabled to no avail. I'm not having much l

Re: Where(in which file) does the installer(Anaconda) write the grub menu entries (for the user to edit)?

2021-08-31 Thread Gueven Bay via users
Aha. I see now. Thank you Stan and Thank you Samuel. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-

Re: Where(in which file) does the installer(Anaconda) write the grub menu entries (for the user to edit)?

2021-08-31 Thread stan via users
64aa5 > rhgb quiet" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" If you edit this line, and add the options you want at the end of the line, separated by a space, and then run grub2-mkconfig, they will be set on all your installed kernels. > GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true > > But I want to

Re: Where(in which file) does the installer(Anaconda) write the grub menu entries (for the user to edit)?

2021-08-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 2021-08-31 9:44 a.m., Gueven Bay via users wrote: Am Di., 31. Aug. 2021 um 16:28 Uhr schrieb stan via users : I think that by F33, the actual stanzas for each kernel had been moved to /boot/loader/entries But I want to change the "linux" and "initrd" lines in the grub

Re: Where(in which file) does the installer(Anaconda) write the grub menu entries (for the user to edit)?

2021-08-31 Thread Gueven Bay via users
Some minutes ago I have rebooted to be able to write down the Fedora 33 grub menu entry: load video set gfxpayload=keep insmod gzio linux ($root)/boot/vmlinuz-5.13.12-100.fc33.x86_64 root=UUID=... ro resume=UUID=... rhgb quiet initrd ($root)/boot/initramfs-5.13.12-100.fc33.x86_64.img (The ... are

Re: Where(in which file) does the installer(Anaconda) write the grub menu entries (for the user to edit)?

2021-08-31 Thread Gueven Bay via users
ue GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="resume=UUID=583baa2f-645c-4a12-99a1-f595ef664aa5 rhgb quiet" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true But I want to change the "linux" and "initrd" lines in the grub menu entry! I do no

Re: Where(in which file) does the installer(Anaconda) write the grub menu entries (for the user to edit)?

2021-08-31 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:59:56 +0200 Gueven Bay via users wrote: > Where do I find and edit my grub menu (of course, if I do not want to > edit the menu manually at every boot time on the grub command line, > which is what I do _not_ want)? > > (The side problem is: In the Quick

Where(in which file) does the installer(Anaconda) write the grub menu entries (for the user to edit)?

2021-08-31 Thread Gueven Bay via users
under /etc/grub.d !? (I looked in 40_custom, 41_custom, 10_linux) I also looked in /etc/default/grub. The grub menu entries for both OSes are also not in this file. Where do I find and edit my grub menu (of course, if I do not want to edit the menu manually at every boot time on the grub command line

Re: F32 UEFI reboot complete OK if 'cold/hard'; but 'warm/soft' reboot hangs after Grub menu entry is selected ?

2020-11-15 Thread PGNet Dev
ope. complete 'radio silence'. not a peep after selecting the grub menu entry after a soft-reboot. then something must be broken really early which would likely make it a firmware issue. likely. tho, i'm not entirely clear on what could be getting borked in a soft-reboot c

Re: F32 UEFI reboot complete OK if 'cold/hard'; but 'warm/soft' reboot hangs after Grub menu entry is selected ?

2020-11-15 Thread Roger Heflin
x27;s up & running without issue. > > But, > > on SOFT reboot -- via either `shutdown -r now` or `systemctl start > reboot.target`, > the system DOES start the reboot. > UEFI boot passes to grub menu as usual, latest kernel is selected, and then > ... > ... nothing. >

F32 UEFI reboot complete OK if 'cold/hard'; but 'warm/soft' reboot hangs after Grub menu entry is selected ?

2020-11-14 Thread PGNet Dev
-- via either `shutdown -r now` or `systemctl start reboot.target`, the system DOES start the reboot. UEFI boot passes to grub menu as usual, latest kernel is selected, and then ... ... nothing. Just sits there. No further error logging, or progress -- even at serial console with kernel/systemd

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-09 Thread Federic Ducon
I just tried 'dnf kernel downgrade'. This pulls in a 4.x kernel but does not remove the latest 5.x /boot/grub.cfg was not touched but I do see the newly installed kernel in the boot menu ( it is NOT the default ). Not surprisingly 'dnf kernel update' now reports "nothing to do ". dnf remo

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-09 Thread Federic Ducon
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with this problem. I have not had this problem before since I use /etc/dnf/dnf.conf to block kernel updates to prevent spamming /boot with every minor update. Until yesterday my running kernel was 5.0.7-200.fc29.x86_64 I intended to upgrade from Fed29 to Fe

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-08 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Chris, Tim, Sorry for the late response. Thanks for the explanations. On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 03:18:59PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:18 PM Suvayu Ali wrote: > > Making things worse, many manufacturers treat their customers like > children, and have decided to refer

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-06 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 00:47 +0530, Suvayu Ali wrote: > I have never quite understood how UEFI worked. Initially I stayed > away from it because of secure boot issues. Do you think I should > put in the effort to move to UEFI? UEFI is the very basic operating system loaded into your motherboard,

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-06 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 1:18 PM Suvayu Ali wrote: > > I have never quite understood how UEFI worked. Initially I stayed away from > it because of secure boot issues. Do you think I should put in the effort to > move to UEFI? If so, would you be able to point me where to start? > BIOS vs UEFI

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Chris, On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 02:53:08PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Post the contents of the following files somewhere (I'm not sure > they'll attach to the list but you can give it a shot if you want) > > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg This evening I went through this carefully, and spotted a fe

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 2:56 PM Sergio Cipolla wrote: > > I've had trouble too is a new Fedora install with grub on the partition (not > MBR), I even eventually re-installed because I tried to revert to > grubby-deprecated and then couldn't get the system to boot to > graphical.target because of

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-05 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 8:03 AM Suvayu Ali wrote: > > Hi, > > For a while now kernel updates doesn't update the grub menu on my system. > However I could always manually update using `grub2-mkconfig -o > /boot/grub/grub2.cfg`. But lately I can't even do that! I h

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Sergio, On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 9:44 PM Sergio Cipolla wrote: > > I've had trouble too is a new Fedora install with grub on the partition (not > MBR), I even eventually re-installed because I tried to revert to > grubby-deprecated and then couldn't get the system to boot to > graphical.targe

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-04 Thread Sergio Cipolla
I've had trouble too is a new Fedora install with grub on the partition (not MBR), I even eventually re-installed because I tried to revert to grubby-deprecated and then couldn't get the system to boot to graphical.target because of the entries needed for nvidia drivers, even after reverting to

Re: Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-02 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hi, > > For a while now kernel updates doesn't update the grub menu on my system. > However I could always manually update using `grub2-mkconfig -o > /boot/grub/grub2.cfg`. But lately I can't even do that! I have already > tried running `grub2-switch-to-blscfg`, but I do

Kernel entries are not updated in grub menu

2019-07-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, For a while now kernel updates doesn't update the grub menu on my system. However I could always manually update using `grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub2.cfg`. But lately I can't even do that! I have already tried running `grub2-switch-to-blscfg`, but I don't think tha

Re: New Install of F29 in a VM Doesn't Display the Grub Menu

2019-02-13 Thread Stephen Morris
boot natively in UEFI mode) which successfully installed F29. Having done the install every time I boot it does not display a grub menu even though there are multiple kernels installed. In F28 there was a grub default file with supplied initial "default" grub configurations which

Re: New Install of F29 in a VM Doesn't Display the Grub Menu

2019-02-12 Thread Samuel Sieb
which successfully installed F29. Having done the install every time I boot it does not display a grub menu even though there are multiple kernels installed. In F28 there was a grub default file with supplied initial "default" grub configurations which other files in /etc/grub.d supplemented to b

New Install of F29 in a VM Doesn't Display the Grub Menu

2019-02-12 Thread Stephen Morris
e the install every time I boot it does not display a grub menu even though there are multiple kernels installed. In F28 there was a grub default file with supplied initial "default" grub configurations which other files in /etc/grub.d supplemented to build (in a bios installation) /boot

What do highlighted packages mean in dnf ? Installed kernels aren't in grub menu ?

2019-01-15 Thread linux guy
@updates kernel.x86_64 4.19.13-300.fc29 @updates The first two kernel packages are highlighted. What is the significance of that ? The last package, 4.19.13-300 isn't highlighted. It also doesn't show in the

Re: No more GRUB menu after upgrade

2018-12-28 Thread Frédéric
> I see you got to the grub menu eventually, but in case it > helps, there is a change in F29 to hide the grub menu by > default. > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu Thanks, it was good to know. Regards, F ___ u

Re: No more GRUB menu after upgrade

2018-12-28 Thread Todd Zullinger
re > rebooting and then I did not get the usual GRUB menu where I can choos > the kernel but instead just a black screen with a blinking cursor. So > I suspect that the upgrade broke GRUB and I cannot load fedora > anymore. > > I am probably able to boot with a USB stick. What should

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED] [SOLVED]

2018-12-28 Thread home user via users
(on Dec. 20, I said) > If, after a few days, the grub menu still looks good, I'll > promote this thread from CLOSED to SOLVED. After a weekly patching, a few cycles of nightly power-down and morning power-up, and a few days of regular operational use, I'm confident this reall

Re: No more GRUB menu after upgrade

2018-12-28 Thread Frédéric
> I am probably able to boot with a USB stick. What should I do to go > back to normal? Oh, after 3 reboot, GRUB is back! Regards, F ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject

No more GRUB menu after upgrade

2018-12-28 Thread Frédéric
GRUB menu where I can choos the kernel but instead just a black screen with a blinking cursor. So I suspect that the upgrade broke GRUB and I cannot load fedora anymore. I am probably able to boot with a USB stick. What should I do to go back to normal? Thanks, F

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-22 Thread Tim via users
Patrick O'Callaghan: > IIRC it used to be 72.72 (my first job was working on an early > typesetting system at Cambridge University Press :-) However > according to Wikipedia a point is now officially 1/72 of an > "international inch": > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography) I stayed

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2018-12-22 at 15:56 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > Don't believe me? Fire up LibreOffice, try out 12 and 24 point text, > and look at the on-screen ruler, or print it out. > > There's approx 72 of *these* points in an inch. IIRC it used to be 72.72 (my first job was working on an early ty

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-21 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 21 December 2018, Rick Stevens sent: > Note that "sizes" in most word processors or printing-related things > are given in points True. And when done correctly, it's an absolute size. i.e. 12 point text is always the same size, no matter what it's printed on or displayed o

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-21 Thread Rick Stevens
> 3. put the name of the file into the GRUB_FONT option: > GRUB_FONT=FreeSans24.pf2 > > 4. do the grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2.cfg > > This way, the name of the font file documents what font and size is > being used. > > Also, I learned the hard way: the size (here, 2

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/20/18 5:39 PM, home user via users wrote: Also, I learned the hard way: the size (here, 24) has a different meaning (units) than the font size in LibreOffice.  I actually tried 16 first.  That's nice and big in LibreOffice, but it was tiny in the grub menu. In LibreOffice, the si

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-20 Thread home user via users
ont and size is being used. Also, I learned the hard way: the size (here, 24) has a different meaning (units) than the font size in LibreOffice. I actually tried 16 first. That's nice and big in LibreOffice, but it was tiny in the grub menu. Thank-you, Rick. If, after a few days, the g

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-20 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/20/18 10:04 AM, home user via users wrote: > (Rick said) >> Actually, you can change the grub font size. You need to convert a >> font into the format grub understands (.pf2) using grub2-mkfont, ... > > 1. How can I determine what font is currently being used? /etc/grub2.cfg > mentions "unic

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-20 Thread home user via users
(Rick said) > Actually, you can change the grub font size. You need to convert a > font into the format grub understands (.pf2) using grub2-mkfont, ... 1. How can I determine what font is currently being used? /etc/grub2.cfg mentions "unicode.pf2", but the Fonts tool finds no font with a name c

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-17 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/16/18 2:26 PM, home user via users wrote: > The error messages that appeared before the grub menu are gone.  I thank > those who coached me through the fix. > > It seems the size of the font in the grub menu is not under my control. > Realistically, there's nothing I/we

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:11 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I also wonder if it's necessary to refresh grub's boot files. Does > anyone else know if grub upgrades update the boot sectors? > BIOS, no update happens, run grub2-install. UEFI, it's updated. Don't run grub2-install. (Silverblue, bootloa

Re: downsized grub menu. [CLOSED]

2018-12-16 Thread home user via users
The error messages that appeared before the grub menu are gone. I thank those who coached me through the fix. It seems the size of the font in the grub menu is not under my control. Realistically, there's nothing I/we can do about it. So I'm closing t

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-16 Thread home user via users
Thank-you, Tim. I'll start a new thread on this shortly. - Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.h

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-15 Thread Tim via users
Allegedly, on or about 12 December 2018, home user via users sent: > Something keeps trying to do automated updates, but I have not been > able to figure out what, or how to shut it off. When you log into a GUI session, the GUI can fire off things as you log in. In MATE, there's a "mate-session-p

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-12 Thread home user via users
Something keeps trying to do automated updates, but I have not been able to figure out what, or how to shut it off. Once this grub menu font issue is solved or closed, I'll address this in a separate new thread. ___ users mailing list -- users@lis

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-12 Thread Rick Stevens
On 12/12/18 10:48 AM, home user via users wrote: > (Ed asked) >> Has this system been installed at around F18 >> and then upgraded as time goes on? > It occurs to me that I did not fully answer this.  Since dnf was > released into Fedora, I upgraded Fedora roughly every half year using > "dnf upgra

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-12 Thread home user via users
I did as Samuel suggested. The good news: No error messages (re-)appeared before the grub menu showed up. The bad news: I did not notice any differences in the grub menu itself; the font still borders on being too small for me and needing a magnifying glass

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-12 Thread home user via users
(Ed asked) > Has this system been installed at around F18 > and then upgraded as time goes on? It occurs to me that I did not fully answer this. Since dnf was released into Fedora, I upgraded Fedora roughly every half year using "dnf upgrade [etc]". Before that, I upgraded roughly every half y

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-11 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/11/18 9:59 AM, home user via users wrote: Now to the greater problem... When I upgraded to Fedora-28, the text of the grub menu was significantly down-sized.  It also seems to be a (darker?) gray.  It is split into two pieces into the corners of the left side of the left monitor.  It is

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-11 Thread home user via users
(Samuel said) > I would say to comment out all the lines from 91-98. Done. Re-booted. No more error messages before the grub menu appears. Thank-you! Now to the greater problem... When I upgraded to Fedora-28, the text of the grub menu was significantly down-sized. It also seems to b

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/10/18 3:51 PM, home user via users wrote: Rather than deleting lines, I commented them out.  It's safer; I can restore them easily if needed.  So now lines 91 to 98 look like this: --- 91 insmod gfxmenu 92 # loadfont ($root)/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-10.pf2   

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-10 Thread home user via users
(responding to Ed) The system was originally installed in early spring of 2013. I would have used either the then current release, or the immediately preceding release. I don't recall anything more. (responding to Samuel) Rather than deleting lines, I commented them out. It's safer; I can

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/9/18 7:39 PM, home user via users wrote: So it looks to me like I'm missing 3 font files and one text file.  How do I easily get them into the right places so they'll be properly maintained by weekly "dnf upgrade" updates? Just delete those lines from the grub config file. As Ed mention

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread Ed Greshko
On 12/10/18 7:35 AM, home user via users wrote: > Hi Samuel, > > I see in /etc/grub2.cfg, it says at the top > --- > # > # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE > # > # It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates > # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub > # > ---

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread home user via users
(Samuel said) > Interesting, I don't have any of those files. Check if you do. ... Results of checking for files referenced in lines 91-98 (done as root): --- -bash.24[system]: pwd /boot/grub2/themes/system -bash.25[system]: ls -la total 7080 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root1024 Oct 11 12:

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/9/18 3:35 PM, home user via users wrote: insmod gfxmenu loadfont ($root)/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-10.pf2 loadfont ($root)/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-12.pf2 loadfont ($root)/grub2/themes/system/DejaVuSans-Bold-14.pf2 loadfont ($root)/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2 insmod png set theme=($r

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread home user via users
Hi Samuel, I see in /etc/grub2.cfg, it says at the top --- # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by grub2-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # --- I also see in lines 91-98 --- insmod gfxmenu lo

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/9/18 2:33 PM, home user via users wrote: 1. What is the name and location of that grub config file? Depending on whether or not you have an EFI system, it's either /etc/grub2.cfg or /etc/grub2-efi.cfg. Both symlinks exist but only one of them should be valid. 2. Is there anything I n

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread home user via users
Samuel, 1. What is the name and location of that grub config file? 2. Is there anything I need to do after editing the file but before re-booting? Thank-you. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email t

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread home user via users
Thank-you for the suggestion, Wolfgang. I tried "journalctl -n 10" as root. I did find "boot --", but I saw no hint of the error messages. I searched for "grub". I searched for "error". No hits. This is a dual-boot workstation. The error messages

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/9/18 3:43 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 08:05:00PM -0700, home user via users wrote: (Samuel said) That should be in /boot. Do you have /boot on a separate partition? How do I determine which partition /boot is in? The directory mentioned in the error messages is

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 08:05:00PM -0700, home user via users wrote: (Samuel said) That should be in /boot. Do you have /boot on a separate partition? How do I determine which partition /boot is in? The directory mentioned in the error messages is under /boot as you said (thank-you!): -

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-08 Thread home user via users
Thank-you, Joe. /boot is in partition /dev/sda3: --- -bash.6[boot]: df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on devtmpfs7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev tmpfs 7.9G 59M 7.8G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 7.9G 1.7M 7.9G 1% /run tmpfs 7.9G 0 7

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 12/08/2018 08:05 PM, home user via users wrote: How do I determine which partition /boot is in? Three ways. First, you can look in /etc/fstab and see if it's listed there. Second, you can do the same with /etc/mtab. Third, you can use df -h which will not only tell you if there's a par

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-08 Thread home user via users
(Samuel said) > That should be in /boot. Do you have /boot on a separate partition? How do I determine which partition /boot is in? The directory mentioned in the error messages is under /boot as you said (thank-you!): --- -bash.2[system]: pwd /boot/grub2/themes/system -bash.3[syst

Re: downsized grub menu.

2018-12-08 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/8/18 9:58 AM, home user via users wrote: By the way, I cannot find a "/grub2" directory. That should be in /boot. Do you have /boot on a separate partition? ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

downsized grub menu.

2018-12-08 Thread home user via users
Good morning, After upgrading from F27 to F28, when booting up, I get a quickly disappearing set of error messages just before the grub menu shows up. Then the grub menu shows up in a very small gray font. The error messages disappear too quickly for me to get the full text of them. But by

Re: grub menu

2018-11-13 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/13/18 1:17 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 13/11/18 9:42 am, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:30:05 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: I would be questioning where that timeout code in grub.cfg came from Brand new in fedora 29 (possibly only if you install from scratch, not upgrade). M

Re: grub menu

2018-11-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/11/18 9:42 am, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:30:05 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: I would be questioning where that timeout code in grub.cfg came from Brand new in fedora 29 (possibly only if you install from scratch, not upgrade). Maybe that's new functionality in F29, I'm st

Re: grub menu

2018-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:30:05 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > I would be > questioning where that timeout code in grub.cfg came from Brand new in fedora 29 (possibly only if you install from scratch, not upgrade). ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fed

Re: grub menu

2018-11-12 Thread Stephen Morris
# timeout_style=menu + timeout=0 avoids the countdown code keypress check set timeout_style=menu set timeout=0 else set timeout_style=hidden set timeout=1 fi fi fi with just set timeout=5 will I get my grub menu back so I can do things like choose previou

Re: grub menu

2018-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 6:55 PM Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:30 Markus Schönhaber wrote: >> Tom Horsley, Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:11:12 wrote: >>> >>> If I edit the grub.cfg file and replace this absurd >>> chunk of gibberish: >> >> Don't edit grub.cfg manually. > > Why not?, that's what

Re: grub menu

2018-11-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:30:41 +0100 Markus Schönhaber wrote: > Tom Horsley, Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:11:12 -0500: > > > If I edit the grub.cfg file and replace this absurd > > chunk of gibberish: > > Don't edit grub.cfg manually. Why not?, that's what "grubby" does when installing a new kernel. The

Re: grub menu

2018-11-12 Thread Hans de Goede
e countdown code keypress check set timeout_style=menu set timeout=0 else set timeout_style=hidden set timeout=1 fi fi fi with just set timeout=5 will I get my grub menu back so I can do things like choose previous kernels? Or should I just delete the entire ch

Re: grub menu

2018-11-12 Thread Tom H
t;1" ]; then > # timeout_style=menu + timeout=0 avoids the countdown code keypress > check > set timeout_style=menu > set timeout=0 > else > set timeout_style=hidden > set timeout=1 > fi > fi > fi > > with just > > s

grub menu

2018-11-12 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Tom Horsley, Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:11:12 -0500: > If I edit the grub.cfg file and replace this absurd > chunk of gibberish: Don't edit grub.cfg manually. > And why isn't there a way to disable the whole > auto hide nonsense? The only thing it appears to be > checking is a serial console, no define

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