Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2023-01-04 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Tue, 2023-01-03 at 21:21 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 1/3/23 18:02, Sérgio Basto wrote: > > But isn't missing inst.rescue boot option [2] ? > > That's a different thing.  The rescue kernel is only to have all > kernel > modules available.  The "inst.rescue" mode is available on netinst >

Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2023-01-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 1/3/23 18:02, Sérgio Basto wrote: But isn't missing inst.rescue boot option [2] ? That's a different thing. The rescue kernel is only to have all kernel modules available. The "inst.rescue" mode is available on netinst images (and maybe others?) and boots an actual rescue mode that lets

Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2023-01-03 Thread Sérgio Basto
On Tue, 2022-03-01 at 14:37 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > Summary-- > Most all Fedora variants (except Cloud) have a GRUB menu entry > containing the word "rescue". This kernel+initramfs pair are never > updated for the life of a Fedora installation. And they quickly > become > stale as a

Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2022-11-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
If I'm not mistaken, this issue hasn't been resolved... Since the rescue kernel depends to some extent on the kernel modules in the root volume, would the right solution be: - in preuninstall, determine whether the rescue kernel matches the version being removed, and if so, remove it, and then:

Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2022-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 3:24 PM Justin Forbes wrote: > I am surprised that the rescue kernel would give an indefinite hang or > even just a dracut prompt within a release. The latter case is trivially reproducible on UEFI, with the failure being that mounting /boot/efi comes *after* switchroot.

Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2022-03-01 Thread Justin Forbes
On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 3:38 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > Summary-- > Most all Fedora variants (except Cloud) have a GRUB menu entry > containing the word "rescue". This kernel+initramfs pair are never > updated for the life of a Fedora installation. And they quickly become > stale as a

Re: "rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2022-03-01 Thread stan via devel
On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 14:37:38 -0700 Chris Murphy wrote: > Summary-- > Most all Fedora variants (except Cloud) have a GRUB menu entry > containing the word "rescue". This kernel+initramfs pair are never > updated for the life of a Fedora installation. And they quickly become > stale as a

"rescue" boot entry files are not updated on OS upgrades

2022-03-01 Thread Chris Murphy
Summary-- Most all Fedora variants (except Cloud) have a GRUB menu entry containing the word "rescue". This kernel+initramfs pair are never updated for the life of a Fedora installation. And they quickly become stale as a Fedora installation ages. This kernel's modules are eventually