I installed a GRUB theme and changed some options in the config but now I need to run update-grub
(alias for grub2-mkconfig -o /etc/grub2-efi.cfg
) after every kernel update or else that new kernel version won’t boot. Does anybody know a fix for this?
ChatGPT gave the following. Follow at your own risk. Most important is to check if the file locations are compatible with Fedora.
To automate running the update-grub command after each kernel update, you can create a script and set it up to run automatically. Here’s a more direct approach:
Open a text editor and create a new script file. For example, you can name it “update_grub.sh”.
In the script file, add the following lines:
#!/bin/bash /usr/sbin/update-grub
Save the script file in a location where it can be easily accessed, such as your home directory.
Make the script executable by running the following command in the terminal:
chmod +x /path/to/update_grub.sh
Next, you can set up a cron job to run this script automatically. Open your crontab file by running:
Add a new line at the end of the crontab file to schedule the script to run after each kernel update. For example:
Save and exit the crontab file.
With these steps, the update-grub command will be executed automatically after each kernel update, ensuring that the new kernel version boots successfully.
This seems like a terrible bandage fix rather than letting the system mechanisms do what they are supposed to.
I’ll probably end up doing something like this if I don’t find out how to actually solve this issue but yeah, it’s just a bandaid fix for another issue. I wonder if it might be an issue that needs to be fixed by the Fedora maintainers themselves but I’d like to find out what’s actually causing it before reporting it.