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Old 04-10-2020, 12:36 PM   #1
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grub2 and older bios


I am on Fedora 28 and thought I upgraded to 31, but I noticed during boot, it still shows Fedora 28.

So, it seems like the upgrade did not finish. I see that the grub config has not been updated.

So, there is this bug https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Commo...ter_an_upgrade

When I try to run

grub2-install /dev/sda

I get

grub-install: warning: file system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.


How can I fix this?
 
Old 04-10-2020, 02:20 PM   #2
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What do you get from: parted /dev/sda print
 
Old 04-10-2020, 05:25 PM   #3
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And "lsblk -f"
 
Old 04-18-2020, 02:43 PM   #4
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Is your F28 installed in 32bit or 64bit?
F31 does not support 32bit and will not install/update on any 32 bit installations.
If you are running the 32 bit version then the only upgrade path will be a complete reinstall as 64 bit.
 
Old 06-18-2020, 05:09 PM   #5
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[root@localhost ~]# parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WDS100T2B0A- (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 525MB 524MB primary ext4 boot
2 525MB 54.2GB 53.7GB primary ext4
3 54.2GB 75.2GB 21.0GB primary ext4
4 75.2GB 1000GB 925GB extended
5 75.2GB 81.5GB 6325MB logical linux-swap(v1)
6 81.5GB 1000GB 919GB logical ext4

[root@localhost ~]# lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
├─sda1 ext4 019f9d7e-cc58-4511-9693-e2ab0d5fa494 /boot
├─sda2 ext4 d2dbbac3-153e-4b03-974d-a660323ae8bc /
├─sda3 ext4 ac1326f2-3a87-484e-92f4-7ebde6c09d63 /home
├─sda4
├─sda5 swap 3c543473-43b7-45e3-90d3-c175fb11fa16 [SWAP]
└─sda6 ext4 67cf5f0e-9295-4a84-aeed-e31bf6990d8b /storage
sdb
└─sdb1 LVM2_member 88vBtX-gtZ0-dFGz-MXqS-Go95-lQWF-lq1vb3
└─storagevg1-lv_storage1 ext3 58f380d7-8dcd-46ee-bef2-db983fce71f6 /mnt/storage1
sr0
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.20.11-100.fc28.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 20 15:51:24 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]#
 
Old 06-18-2020, 08:32 PM   #6
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Maybe run
Code:
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
to update the grub menu.
 
Old 06-18-2020, 08:39 PM   #7
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https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...ystem-isnt-emb would make me think you tried to install to partition instead of mbr but your command says disk. Could it be that you booted to a usb media to try this command?
 
  


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