On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 09:35 -0500, Don Zickus wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 05:56:42PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> # rpm -ihv kernel-3.2.0-0.rc6.git0.1.pnfsdlexp.fc16.x86_64.rpm
> Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
> 1:kernel ########################################### [100%]
> grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
> # uname -r
> 3.1.5-6.fc16.x86_64
My experience with the upgrading to F16 was the new grub2 was causing the
problems. However, the way the install scripts were written, they update
both grub.conf (grub1) and grub2.cfg (grub2). grub.conf is updated
correctly, it is just the grub2.cfg isn't (in fact it is empty, hence the
warning). Because my system still uses grub1 in the bootloader (not sure
how to force it to use grub2), everything boots fine for me (for now :-/
). So I just ignore the warning.
My box had the exact opposite problem, I'm not using grub2. On upgrade
to F16 grub1 (/boot/grub/grub.conf) was blank but grub2
(/boot/grub2/grub.cfg) worked just fine. Deleting grub.conf caused it
to stop whining about being unable to find a template and now all is
well.
In my case (and Don's it sounds like) this was completely cosmetic...
-Eric