Fedora 20 x64 and Grub2/mbr
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 8:32 pm
As is covered here http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=280 followed the instructions to a tee. Don't know if it makes a difference but in Fedora 20 x64 I used the install DVD. For Fedora 20 following the above kb article was flawless until step 28. There is no quit button at the bottom right. The only option is reboot. Since step 28 has a warning about "Do not reboot" in bold (for very good reasons) I stopped here. I pressed Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to a terminal. There is no "Activities" either as step 29 suggests. From the terminal I followed steps 30 to 35. All worked, no error message. Rebooting and all was as it should be. BooItBM was still active and Fedora 20 booted. However, there was no graphic display for Grub2 just a black screen with the words Fedora highlighted and a 5 second countdown at the bottom. Fedora booted up ok but there was no splash screen. I checked Grub2 in Fedora 20 and there was no /etc/default/grub file at all (there is supposed to be one by default) So apparently by not installing a bootloader until after installation completes, some of the Grub2 configuration files are not created. I had a backup of Fedora 19 x64 and copied over the /etc/default/grub file (using TBIview) to a flash drive then as root copying this file into the default location. Everything now works. However, is there any way that I can setup Grub2 properly after installation so the /etc/default/grub is created and I have a default splash screen appear as Fedora 20 x64 boots up? I don't care about the Grub2 graphics since I set the timeout in Grub to 0 once I know it's working, but I would like the default splash screen to appear as Fedora boots up.