[CentOS] C8.1 Grub problem

Mon Apr 6 14:03:53 UTC 2020
Alessandro Baggi <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com>

Il 06/04/20 15:21, Simon Matter via CentOS ha scritto:
>> Il 06/04/20 11:54, Georgios ha scritto:
>>> Hi there!
>>> I had a similar problem recently with grub. No idea why it doesnt work.
>>> Try using grubby instead of grub2-mkconfig if you want the system to
>>> keep your kernel parameters between boots.
>>>
>>> Something like:
>>>
>>> sudo grubby --args="i915.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=i915" --update-
>>> kernel=ALL
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope it helps!
>>> Have a nice day!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 11:42 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> I reinstalled on my workstation CentOS 8.1.
>>>>
>>>> I explain: I'm a KDE user but packages shipped from EPEL currently
>>>> are
>>>> buggy so I prefer a stable and functioning system to work with. So I
>>>> tried to remove KDE workgroup and installed group "Workstation" but
>>>> the
>>>> system bricked so I reinstalled with GNOME.
>>>>
>>>> I've an nvidia gtx 1050ti GPU so I installed kmod-driver from
>>>> rpmfusion.
>>>> After the installation of Nvidia driver, I rebooted, gdm start and
>>>> after
>>>> I perform the login the system freeze. So this problem happened to
>>>> me
>>>> with C7.5 and nvidia driver. In my case I need to blacklist i915
>>>> module
>>>> and system works.
>>>>
>>>> Also in this case I tried to boot centos changing grub kernel
>>>> parameters
>>>> pressing 'e' in the grub menu and adding "i915.modeset=0
>>>> rd.driver.blacklist=i915", booted and system works.
>>>>
>>>> So I tried to make this permanent updating grub configuration adding
>>>> the
>>>> previous directives (and removed rhgb and quiet) to
>>>> /etc/default/grub
>>>> and run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg.
>>>>
>>>> Reboot the system and checked again kernel parameters on grub menu
>>>> and
>>>> seen that nothing changed. Booted and freezed.
>>>>
>>>> I checked /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg and kernelops has the new
>>>> directives.
>>>>
>>>> Seems that grub configuration does not take effect.
>>>>
>>>> I made another test inside a VM installed with minimal selection and
>>>> remove rhgb and quiet parameters and worked fine. The vm is BIOS and
>>>> my
>>>> workstation UEFI.
>>>>
>>>> How I can solve this problem? Currently to boot my system I need
>>>> always
>>>> to add this params.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> CentOS mailing list
>>>> CentOS at centos.org
>>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> CentOS mailing list
>>> CentOS at centos.org
>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried as suggested, parameters will be updated but I get already
>> crash. So I tried to remove also rhgb and quiet and works well.
>>
>>    Would be good to know what is wrong with grub2-mkconfig.
>>
>> Where start to investigate?
> Just to be sure, your subject line says this is on CentOS 8.1, right?
>
> Because IIRC grub2-mkconfig was broken in CentOS 7 despite the head of
> every grub cfg file telling us "It is automatically generated by
> grub2-mkconfig using templates".
>
> Really weird that you see the same with CentOS 8.1.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Hi Simon,

I'm on 8.1. I'm searching help to see if this is a bug or error by me 
but can't find nothing.
Currently I used grubby but it does not write any file that I know like 
/boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg (I tried to remove and add arg but nothing 
changed on files), so I don't know where it make update.

I never got a problem using grub2-mkconfig -o file on C7 (last used was 
7.5) It always worked as expected to me (for example when I installed 
nvidia driver using NVIDIA package to blacklist nouveau manually).