Fedora Upgrade: F29 -> F30
My latest Fedora 30 upgrade kicked off in the usual fashion:
dnf system-upgrade download --refresh --releasever=30
A few packages that “do not belong to a distupgrade repository” were in the way:
dnf remove ceph-common system-config-date system-config-services system-config-firewall
Everything went swimmingly through:
dnf system-upgrade reboot
Until I landed at the grub prompt. A quick search found
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F30_bugs#GRUB_boot_menu_is_not_populated_after_an_upgrade and https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/problem-with-update-to-fedora-30/1244/4.
“This happens on systems that were originally installed using Fedora 20 or older.” Ouch, another bug some several years in the making. The fix is easy enough:
grub> configfile /grub2/grub.cfg.rpmsave
And when booted normally:
grub2-install /dev/X (in my case, sda)
On another note, it’s nice to see startxfce4 working again.
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