Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-07-04 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/28/24 11:25 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Another one to avoid: cheap SSDs with duplicate serial numbers. Some manufacturers repeat (clone?) serial numbers, and when you try to use them in a RAID configuration, things go badly. A fellow on a Ubuntu list struggled for months because of it. That

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-28 14:25, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Another one to avoid: cheap SSDs with duplicate serial numbers. Some manufacturers repeat (clone?) serial numbers, and when you try to use them in a RAID configuration, things go badly. A fellow on a Ubuntu list struggled for months because of it. At

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 2:10 PM Frank Bures wrote: > > On 2024-06-23 11:43, Frank Bures wrote: > > On 2024-06-23 04:29, Tim wrote: > > > I followed > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2?rd=Grub2#Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems > > > > and then I tried to run > > grub2-emu > >

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-28 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-23 11:43, Frank Bures wrote: On 2024-06-23 04:29, Tim wrote: I followed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GRUB_2?rd=Grub2#Updating_GRUB_2_configuration_on_UEFI_systems and then I tried to run grub2-emu I get the list of installed kernels OK, but any choice for boot returns error: .

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-23 Thread Frank Bures
dot at the end of the line, is it normal? No matter which kernel I choose, I get the error that kernel file was not found. All kernel files are in /boot and have correct permissions. I checked UUIDs of /boot, /boot/efi and / and they are all correct. I think this is the original problem that

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-23 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2024-06-22 at 23:54 -0400, Frank Bures wrote: > This is what my efibootmgr returns: > > root@ryzen:/# efibootmgr > BootCurrent: 0002 > Timeout: 1 seconds > BootOrder: 0002,,0001 > Boot Fedora > HD(1,GPT,e8838c34-c364-4347-afb7-1c516782b114,0x800,0x12c000)/\EFI\FEDORA\SHIMX64.EFI

Re: Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-22 Thread Frank Bures
On 2024-06-22 20:59, Frank Bures wrote: Hi, I just did a kernel update and after reboot I ended up in a grub prompt. I booted from USB F40 and followed instructions at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/grub2-bootloader/#_restoring_the_bootloader_using_the_live_disk However

Kernel 6.9.5-200.fc40 throws me into grub prompt on reboot

2024-06-22 Thread Frank Bures
Hi, I just did a kernel update and after reboot I ended up in a grub prompt. I booted from USB F40 and followed instructions at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/grub2-bootloader/#_restoring_the_bootloader_using_the_live_disk However, whatever I did I was not able to

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-22 Thread George N. White III
On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 8:26 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > [...] > I have checked/rechecked three times: > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg with flag "--root-dev-only": grub goes to > prompt, $prefix is obviously not set. > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg wi

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-22 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 21.04.24 um 18:34 schrieb Go Canes: On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg: search --no-floppy --root-dev-only --fs-uuid --set=dev 206c0b5f-eddf-42e8-96f1-e666c5635cd0 set prefix=($dev)/grub2 export $prefix

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Felix Miata
B_DISTRIBUTOR= on EXT4-formatted nvme0n1p7. If you can correctly equate your installed values for those in my Grub stanza above, you should be able to boot by typing in each of the necessary lines from your grub> prompt to get booted. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion,

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 12:15 PM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > > Am 20.04.24 um 23:16 schrieb George N. White III: > > I assume you can still boot with manual grub commands. > Yes, linux ..., initrd ..., boot > or: >configfile (hd0,1)/grub2/grub.cfg > which immediately brings back the gru

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-21 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
far as I remember, the system simply wouldn't boot if there were a typo in fstab. As described earlier, I always ended up at the grub prompt. What I found: If I write the "real" grub.conf directly to the efi partition (*|grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg), then I boot to t

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Tim via users
Joe Zeff: >> In all the years I've been using Linux, I've never yet run across a .pdf >> file that Linux's default viewer couldn't read. What is it about those >> files that requires Windows to read? George N. White III: > a) fillable forms that explicitly say they must be completed using Windows

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread George N. White III
On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 6:43 PM Joe Zeff wrote: > On 04/20/2024 03:16 PM, George N. White III wrote: > > In preparation for converting my dual boot Win10+Fedora system > > to Fedora only, I needed to expand the Win11 partition on another > > dual boot system because some "mission critical" Adobe

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Joe Zeff
On 04/20/2024 03:16 PM, George N. White III wrote: In preparation for converting my dual boot Win10+Fedora system to Fedora only, I needed to expand the Win11 partition on another dual boot system because some "mission critical" Adobe PDF documents require Windows. In all the years I've been us

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread George N. White III
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 11:48 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users < users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my > harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were > scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt). I was a

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Bryan
explanation! I went through all the steps, checked the IDs from efibootmgr and blkid with respect to the various configuration files - and found no mismatch, but again I ended up with the grub prompt. Tomorrow I am going to spend another rainy afternoon double

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
o the various configuration files - and found no mismatch, >> but again I ended up with the grub prompt. >> Tomorrow I am going to spend another rainy afternoon double-checking - >> and then I'll give up and do a fresh fedora install on blank /dev/sda >> (which might

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Lester Petrie
On 4/20/2024 1:14 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: I am really grateful for your detailed explanation! I went through all the steps, checked the IDs from efibootmgr and blkid with respect to the various configuration files - and found no mismatch, but again I ended up with the grub

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-20 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
led explanation! I went through all the steps, checked the IDs from efibootmgr and blkid with respect to the various configuration files - and found no mismatch, but again I ended up with the grub prompt. Tomorrow I am going to spend another rainy afternoon double-checking - and then I'll giv

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Go Canes
will load grub while will use grub.cfg from the same directory. [root@fubar ~]# cat /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=dev c5f18a2c-ee16-454e-b85d-6d7f03b86532 set prefix=($dev)/grub2 export $prefix configfile $prefix/grub.cfg [ Since you are getting a grub prompt, I thi

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 17.04.24 um 18:45 schrieb Felix Miata: Klaus-Peter Schrage via users composed on 2024-04-17 16:48 (UTC+0200): After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt).

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-19 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Am 17.04.24 um 17:51 schrieb Go Canes: Step by step: I recently had similar problems. These are the things to check: o use blkid to get the current UUID(s) The current UUIDs correspond to the ones in /etc/fstab, that hadn't been changed btw. o check /etc/kernel/cmdline if it exists - make sure

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
ARTUUID. In my case I needed the *new* UUID for the root partition in both of the grub.cfg files (*not* the PARTUUID). IIRC, I was getting dropped into the dracut shell (not grub) until I updated both of the grub.cfg files, and then was stopped at the grub prompt until I found and updated /etc

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Felix Miata
Klaus-Peter Schrage via users composed on 2024-04-17 16:48 (UTC+0200): > After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my > harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were > scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt). I was able to free a third > harddisk (

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
Thanks for your quick reply! I faintly remembered the dracut thing, so I tried that first - but it didn't help. I will look into the UUID stuff tomorrow, although I had already checked that gparted really did not change UUIDs when  moving partitions around. And as I said, I can get into Fedora a

Re: Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Go Canes
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 10:48 AM Klaus-Peter Schrage via users wrote: > But rebooting still gets me to the dreaded grub>. > So what am I missing? > BTW, I did NOT use the grub2-install command which shoud not be used on > UEFI systems. I recently had similar problems. These are the things to che

Stuck at grub prompt after reordering partitions

2024-04-17 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage via users
After many years of maintaing dual boot setups (Fedora/Windows) my harddisk layout got a bit confusing: Linux and Windows partition were scattered on mainly two harddisks (all gpt). I was able to free a third harddisk (ssd) and copied the linux partitions boot, root and home over to the new disk,

Re: grub prompt

2020-06-05 Thread Roger Heflin
p from Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso. > Then updated. > It seem that if I try to boot I just get the dreaded grub> prompt. > But if I have the live-usb stick inserted it boots normally. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Those who don't unders

grub prompt

2020-06-05 Thread Neal Becker
I installed F32 on a laptop from Fedora-MATE_Compiz-Live-x86_64-32-1.6.iso. Then updated. It seem that if I try to boot I just get the dreaded grub> prompt. But if I have the live-usb stick inserted it boots normally. Any ideas? -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to r

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread Rich Emberson
This morning I got the dreaded grub prompt on boot. Took me 3 hours to understand what https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_populated_after_an_upgrade was talking about. I did a bunch of searching and trying things out before I hit upon the configfile grub command

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread David Dusanic
to an older one from Fedora 29. I never saw this before. So I have to catch up before the Grub prompt automatically selects the second kernel in the boot menu. Anybody experiencing this? -- David Dusanic ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedorapro

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 8:10 AM Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 5/1/19 8:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> It happens if the most recent 'grub2-install' happened with a Fedora >> 20 or older GRUB package. e.g. if you installed Fedora 20 clean, then >> did an OS upgrade every 6-12 months all the way throug

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:19 PM Charles R. Dennett wrote: > On 5/1/19 11:07 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48 PM Charles R. Dennett >> wrote: >>> >>> Is there any way to tell just by looking for the presence or absence >>> of any particular file or directory that you would run into

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 5/1/19 8:24 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: It happens if the most recent 'grub2-install' happened with a Fedora 20 or older GRUB package. e.g. if you installed Fedora 20 clean, then did an OS upgrade every 6-12 months all the way through to Fedora 30, then you'd probably run into this bug. But if at

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Charles R. Dennett
On 5/1/19 11:07 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48 PM Charles R. Dennett wrote: >> >> Is there any way to tell just by looking for the presence or absence >> of any particular file or directory that you would run into this >> bug? > > Unless you're multi-booting and grub's managed

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 12:48 PM Charles R. Dennett wrote: > On 5/1/19 5:25 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:21 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: >>> >>> What I took from the prior wording is that if you installed Fedora >>> 20 or earlier and then only updated the OS since (and had not >>> manu

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Charles R. Dennett
On 5/1/19 5:25 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:21 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: >> >> What I took from the prior wording is that if you installed Fedora >> 20 or earlier and then only updated the OS since (and had not >> manually run grub2-update), that you would hit this bug. > > "grub2

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 3:21 AM Todd Zullinger wrote: > > What I took from the prior wording is that if you installed Fedora > 20 or earlier and then only updated the OS since (and had not > manually run grub2-update), that you would hit this bug. "grub2-install" not "grub2-update". __

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 2:49 AM Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how >>> common it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmw

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:21 PM Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > > wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > >>> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > >>> it i

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Chris Murphy writes: On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > > it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that > > origi

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Todd Zullinger
Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan > wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common >>> it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that >>> ori

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:17 PM Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > > it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that > > originally had Fedora 20 or o

Re: GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2019-04-30 at 16:03 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common > it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that > originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had > 'grub2-install' issued since then.

GRUB prompt after F29 to F30 upgrade

2019-04-30 Thread Chris Murphy
Just a heads up that this can be an issue, but I'm not sure how common it is. It applies to BIOS (not UEFI) firmware, and for systems that originally had Fedora 20 or older installed and also never had 'grub2-install' issued since then. Therefore it can be prevented just by running 'grub2-install'

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-28 Thread Berend De Schouwer
On Tue, 2018-11-27 at 16:17 -0700, linux guy wrote: > Interesting. /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg didn't exist on my > workstation. But /etc/grub2-efi.cfg points to it ! /boot/efi > existed, but it was empty. This means that either /boot/efi/ isn't mounted after you reboot (check /etc/fstab)

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/27/18 3:17 PM, linux guy wrote: Interesting.  /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg didn't exist on my workstation.  But /etc/grub2-efi.cfg points to it !   /boot/efi existed, but it was empty. How are you booting into it right now to do this? Btw, both grub.cfg symlinks are always created whet

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-27 Thread linux guy
ow It rebooted to the grub prompt. Now what ? On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:12 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/26/18 7:56 PM, linux guy wrote: > > It still boots to the grub prompt, even when I use -o > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > That is still the wrong file. You need either > /boot/ef

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-27 Thread linux guy
Thank you. On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 11:12 PM Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 11/26/18 7:56 PM, linux guy wrote: > > It still boots to the grub prompt, even when I use -o > /boot/grub2/grub.cfg > > That is still the wrong file. You need either > /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg >

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/26/18 7:56 PM, linux guy wrote: It still boots to the grub prompt, even when I use -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg That is still the wrong file. You need either /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg or /etc/grub2-efi.cfg which is a symlink to the first one

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-26 Thread linux guy
I'm using UEFI. On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 2:43 PM stan wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:28:36 -0600 > linux guy wrote: > > > I have an up to date F28 server that boots to the grub prompt. This > > started after a failed dnf update. > > > > The computer

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-26 Thread linux guy
It still boots to the grub prompt, even when I use -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 1:33 PM linux guy wrote: > I was running grub2-mkconfig. I did not use -o. > > I never even thought of that. I was running it from the wrong directory > ! Good catch. Thanks

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-11-01 Thread linux guy
I was running grub2-mkconfig. I did not use -o. I never even thought of that. I was running it from the wrong directory ! Good catch. Thanks for replying. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:23 PM linux guy wrote: > > I have an up to date F28 server that boots to the grub prompt. This started > after a failed dnf update. > > The computer will boot to an emergency mode command prompt if I set it up > properly from the grub prompt. >

Re: F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-10-30 Thread stan
On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:28:36 -0600 linux guy wrote: > I have an up to date F28 server that boots to the grub prompt. This > started after a failed dnf update. > > The computer will boot to an emergency mode command prompt if I set > it up properly from the grub prompt. >

F28 server boots to the grub prompt even after dnf update and grub2-mkconfig

2018-10-30 Thread linux guy
I have an up to date F28 server that boots to the grub prompt. This started after a failed dnf update. The computer will boot to an emergency mode command prompt if I set it up properly from the grub prompt. grub> set root=(lvm/fedora-root) grub> linuxefi (hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-0-rescue..