Re: grub won't show menu in f44 VM

Robert McBroom via test <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:59:47 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.testers
Message-ID <176539318742.1382300.17771542635092120500@mailman01.rdu3.fedoraproject.org>
Use case is to track rawhide. The cloud image seemed to be The shortest way to get the upgrade to rawhide. Installing to a virtual machine takes care of setting an account and enabling root.
virt-customize -a Fedora-Cloud-Base-Generic-43-1.6.x86_64.qcow2 --root-password password:xxxxxxxx
qemu-img resize Fedora-Cloud-Base-Generic-43-1.6.x86_64.qcow2 +30G
btrfs device add /dev/sdax /
takes care of making space
dnf4 groupinstall ...
Takes care of configurations
btrfs
I'm too slow for 5 s so have timeout set to 25 s
Can force kernel selection with making /etc/grub.d/41_custom to 07_custom and creating the appropriate custom.cfg in 
/boot/grub2
putting options on the command line then requires a boot, edit to custom.cfg and reboot. Using the grub menu is much nicer.
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