Re: [CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-03 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 03/08/2020 à 19:24, david a écrit : > After trying several paths, some suggested on this list, here's my results. Hi, Just back from a hiking trip. One of my clients sent me a message that his CentOS server refuses to boot. So tomorrow I have to drive there to figure out what's going on. I

[CentOS] Fixing grub/shim issue Centos 7

2020-08-03 Thread david
After trying several paths, some suggested on this list, here's my results. 1) Fixing a unbootable system wasn't practical in my case. Fortunately, all my systems can be rebuilt from scratch. 2) When I was lucky enough to catch an updated system before reboot, backing out the defective

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-03 Thread Jyrki Tikka
On 2020-08-03 18:43, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 8/3/20 2:21 AM, Jyrki Tikka wrote: The boot disks must have an EFI boot partition even though it's not used in this case. IIRC, they need a partition at the beginning of the drive to reserve space for GRUB2.  That should be a "BIOS boot

[CentOS-docs] [centos/centos.org] branch master updated (32db764 -> 11ef743)

2020-08-03 Thread git
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[CentOS-docs] [centos/centos.org] branch master updated (c10c954 -> 32db764)

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Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 8/3/20 2:21 AM, Jyrki Tikka wrote: The boot disks must have an EFI boot partition even though it's not used in this case. IIRC, they need a partition at the beginning of the drive to reserve space for GRUB2.  That should be a "BIOS boot partition" not an "EFI System partition" for

Re: [CentOS] 8.2.2004 Latest yum update renders machine unbootable

2020-08-03 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/2/20 7:51 PM, Pete Biggs wrote: > >> >> You just need to reinstall the kernel and it should work. >> >> > Is it possible to bump the kernel version number to make sure the > kernel gets re-installed on automated installs? Or would this break > the compatibility with RHEL? > Well .. It

Re: [CentOS] NFSroot over wifi in CentOS 7 - graceful shutdown problem

2020-08-03 Thread Simon Matter via CentOS
> Hi, > > I've got a task to have a small number of laptops netboot Linux over > WiFi. The kernel is loaded off the USB stick of cource, it's off topic > for now. > > The WPA-supplicant daemon is started early by dracut off initrd. It > works. Mostly. > > The problem is that upon shutdown systemd

[CentOS] NFSroot over wifi in CentOS 7 - graceful shutdown problem

2020-08-03 Thread Dmitry E. Mikhailov
Hi, I've got a task to have a small number of laptops netboot Linux over WiFi. The kernel is loaded off the USB stick of cource, it's off topic for now. The WPA-supplicant daemon is started early by dracut off initrd. It works. Mostly. The problem is that upon shutdown systemd terminates

Re: [CentOS] Boot failed on latest CentOS 7 update

2020-08-03 Thread Jyrki Tikka
On 2020-08-03 05:56, John Pierce wrote: Legacy BIOS has its own set of issues, like no GPT support, MBR disks are max 2TB. I'm booting just fine on an old BIOS system from a pair (mdraid 1) of 3 TB GPT disks. The MBR compatibility on GPT disks allow the old machine to boot from a GPT disk