Uploaded image for project: 'RHEL Documentation'
  1. RHEL Documentation
  2. RHELDOCS-19920

Missing package in reinstall list

XMLWordPrintable

    • Important
    • rhel-bootloader
    • ssg_core_services
    • 1
    • False
    • False
    • Hide

      None

      Show
      None
    • None
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    • CCS 2025-7
    • None
    • Not Required
    • Required
    • Unspecified

      Document link: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/managing_monitoring_and_updating_the_kernel/assembly_reinstalling-grub_managing-monitoring-and-updating-the-kernel#proc_resetting-grub_assembly_reinstalling-grub

      Section number and name:
      12.4 Resetting Grub

      Describe the issue:
      To properly reset the grub configuration, the grub2-common package needs to be included. This is specifically because on EFI systems the /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.cfg file is a stub file linked to the one under /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. If the grub2-common package is not reinstalled, this file is not impacted.

      Impact of this issue:
      When attempting to reset grub it is not actually fully reset as the section suggests. This can lead to confusion and there is no other known workaround to restore the stub file and link for the impacted file.

      Suggestions for improvement:
      In step 2 of the procedure for UEFI based machines change this:

      1. yum reinstall grub2-efi shim grub2-tools
        To this:
      1. yum reinstall grub2-efi shim grub2-tools grub2-common

              rhn-support-mjivraja Malhar Jivrajani
              rhn-support-ksweiker Katie Sweikert
              RHEL Docs RHEL Docs
              Votes:
              0 Vote for this issue
              Watchers:
              3 Start watching this issue

                Created:
                Updated:
                Resolved: