Dear maintainers, Please accept attached patch that should fix this behavior.
I am using coreutils sort to sort the list by version. As it is turning this: /dev/sdb5:/dev/sdb5::/boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-0.rc2.git2.1.fc26.x86_64:/boot/initramfs-4.10.0-0.rc2.git2.1.fc26.x86_64.img:root=/dev/sdb5 /dev/sdb5:/dev/sdb5::/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.0-2.fc26.x86_64:/boot/initramfs-4.11.0-2.fc26.x86_64.img:root=/dev/sdb5 /dev/sdb5:/dev/sdb5::/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-0.rc0.git7.1.fc26.x86_64:/boot/initramfs-4.9.0-0.rc0.git7.1.fc26.x86_64.img:root=/dev/sdb5 Into this /dev/sdb5:/dev/sdb5::/boot/vmlinuz-4.11.0-2.fc26.x86_64:/boot/initramfs-4.11.0-2.fc26.x86_64.img:root=/dev/sdb5 /dev/sdb5:/dev/sdb5::/boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-0.rc2.git2.1.fc26.x86_64:/boot/initramfs-4.10.0-0.rc2.git2.1.fc26.x86_64.img:root=/dev/sdb5 /dev/sdb5:/dev/sdb5::/boot/vmlinuz-4.9.0-0.rc0.git7.1.fc26.x86_64:/boot/initramfs-4.9.0-0.rc0.git7.1.fc26.x86_64.img:root=/dev/sdb5 That change is necessary for grub2 to keep the most recent kernel in main menu. Also, I am not sure how it is working for other distributions, but on Fedora I am seeing the same description for main menu, as well as sub-menus. I was thinking that in this case it should return only the most recent kernel.
From a725d9d91b92aaa3a1a3332824191a03c91bc4e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Samuel=20Rakitni=C4=8Dan?= <samuel.rakitni...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 21:57:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Sort kernels by version in 90fallback, newest first. Closes: #741889 --- linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/90fallback | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/90fallback b/linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/90fallback index 9ff78e1..5692d90 100755 --- a/linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/90fallback +++ b/linux-boot-probes/mounted/common/90fallback @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ for kernpat in /vmlinuz /vmlinux /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinux "/boot/vmlinuz*" \ else kernbootpart="$partition" fi - for kernfile in $(eval ls "$mpoint$kernpat" 2>/dev/null); do + for kernfile in $(eval ls "$mpoint$kernpat" 2>/dev/null | sort -rV); do kernbasefile=$(echo "$kernfile" | sed "s!^$mpoint!!") if [ -f "$kernfile" ] && [ ! -L "$kernfile" ]; then initrdname=$(echo "$kernfile" | sed "s/vmlinu[zx]/initrd\*/") -- 2.9.4
