Grub doesn't detect Fedora after installing a grub theme

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When booted to fedora you can use efibootmgr to see the uefi bios boot order. It can also be used to modify the boot order and default boot loader.

I also looked at the install.sh that you used to install the grub theme and there are errors in it.
The way it was written works well for the older grub.cfg location used for Fedora 33 and earlier and runs

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

if that file exists, which is not correct for Fedora 34 and later.
Fedora 34 places the grub.cfg file at /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.

A clean new install of F34 does not create /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg so the theme install will work properly, but upgrading to F34 from F33 or earlier will leave the existing grub.cfg file at that location which then causes the error.

If the file grub.cfg already exists under the /boot/efi/ path it will cause the install of your theme to improperly place the updated grub.cfg file in that location rather than in /boot/grub2/ .

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