AdamW
12th October 2011, 06:21 PM
Hey, everyone. Important note for people running EFI installs of F16: install the 'grub-efi' package manually before you next reboot! A grub update went into updates-testing recently and soon will go stable which splits out the EFI bits of grub into a grub-efi sub-package, but we so far neglected to include a mechanism to make it get installed with a normal yum update. If you have an EFI install you *need* this package installed or your system won't boot. So before you next reboot, make sure you install it manually!
If yum doesn't show the grub-efi package as available it means your mirror doesn't yet have the split-up package, and you're okay for now (because obviously your grub package will still have the EFI bits). But for now, run 'yum install grub-efi' before each reboot just to make sure you don't get stuck.
We're going to update the package so that grub-efi will get installed when you go from the 'old' grub to the 'new split up' grub, which should stop this being an issue later, but right now, be careful!
If yum doesn't show the grub-efi package as available it means your mirror doesn't yet have the split-up package, and you're okay for now (because obviously your grub package will still have the EFI bits). But for now, run 'yum install grub-efi' before each reboot just to make sure you don't get stuck.
We're going to update the package so that grub-efi will get installed when you go from the 'old' grub to the 'new split up' grub, which should stop this being an issue later, but right now, be careful!
