Bug 8548

Summary:	no new grub entry when installing a kernel
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tom Massimi <tmassimi>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	dracut, draktools	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Tom Massimi 2012-12-29 20:51:47 CET

Description of problem:

MGA3B1 kde dvd live 64bit on wmware,
a kernel update has been installed 
but no new kernel entry appears on the grub menu 

reported here with all details

https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=4113


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

I think this job is in charge to initrd (just a guess) 


How reproducible:
Don't know, I made only 1 installation


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install
2.update the kernel
3.check /boot/grub/menu.lst

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-29 22:30:04 CET

have you both grub and grub2 installed ?

(in fact it's the symlink to initrd.img which is not updated)

Source RPM: dracut (or some script used to install kernels) => dracut, draktools

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-29 22:30:59 CET

(and vmlinuz)

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-29 22:52:48 CET

if yes it's a dups of bug 8463

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 4 Tom Massimi 2012-12-30 00:35:07 CET

I made the simpler installation, can't remember a question about which grub I'd like to have, so probably I have the default choise.

Now I have both grub packeges installed, how can understand which is the used one?

BTW, I have modified /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the newer kernel and I'm now running it, so if that file is used only by grub1 you have the answer.

about comment 1 & 2, there are symlinks to the newer kernel but they have a different name like initrd-desktop, and I think this is right as I need a way to start one kernel or the other one, so I need both links and an additional entry in menu.lst poiting to the different links or directly to the initrd-kernel.3.7.x file.  


finally yes, it seems a dupe of 8463

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2012-12-30 00:45:19 CET

well seems you use grub1, ok so yes duplicate

>I made the simpler installation, can't remember a question about which grub I'd
>like to have, so probably I have the default choise.

ah indeed interesting, the live copy all rpms which are on the media, will open a separate bugs for that. 

thanks anyway.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8463 ***

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => DUPLICATE