Bug 27228

Summary: GRUB says Mageia 7 Cauldron and defaults to Mageia 7 kernel after upgrading to Mageia 8
Product: Mageia Reporter: David Walser <luigiwalser>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: atelier-bugs
Version: 8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: grub-0.97-50.mga7.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:

Description David Walser 2020-08-30 19:17:34 CEST
After upgrading from Mageia 5->6->7, the graphical GRUB (not GRUB2) screen in Mageia 7 has no theme/background and the default boot entries say Mageia 7 Cauldron.  Mageia 6 did not have these issues.
Comment 1 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-30 21:09:02 CEST
Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.

Does package mageia-gfxboot-theme properly installed?

Seems doing
 $ urpmq --whatrequires-recursive grub
draklive
grub
xen

 $ urpmq --whatrequires-recursive mageia-gfxboot-theme
mageia-gfxboot-theme

But this package should be a dependency of grub in order to have gfxboot menu with Mageia branding, isn't it?

@David, 
Could you provide the file /root/drakx/report.bug.xz as an attachment?
Thanks in advance.

CC: (none) => atelier-bugs
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-30 21:09:19 CEST

Assignee: pkg-bugs => bugsquad

Comment 2 David Walser 2020-08-30 21:50:40 CEST
Yes, mageia-gfxboot-theme is installed.  Drakx logs won't help as this is an upgrade (via urpmi), not a new installation.
Comment 3 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-31 22:14:45 CEST
Assigning to all packagers, as GRUB as no registered maintainer.
Also CC to Atelier Team.

Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)

Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-31 22:15:21 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 4 David Walser 2021-07-03 21:18:59 CEST
Theme issue is fixed, the Mageia 8 artwork background is used.  After the upgrade, the explicit entry for the Mageia 7 kernel is the first listed in menu.lst and there's a default=0 making it the default.  The usual default is the second choice and still says "Mageia 7 Cauldron" although it does load the Mageia 8 kernel.

Summary: GRUB improperly themed in Mageia 7 (and says Cauldron) => GRUB says Mageia 7 Cauldron and defaults to Mageia 7 kernel after upgrading to Mageia 8
Version: 7 => 8
Source RPM: grub-0.97-48.1.mga7.src.rpm => grub-0.97-50.mga7.src.rpm