Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2024-02-17, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> Today's routine update says:
>>>
>>> Re-run grub-install to update installed boot code!
>>>
>>> Is "sudo grub-install" really all I have to do? [...]
>>>
>>> Or do I have to run grub-install with all the same options that
>>> were originally used to install grub?
>> I been wondering the same since I saw this posted on -dev. The news
>> item seems to mention the EFI booting but I'm sure us legacy booting
>> users need to do the same. At this point, I may skip updating grub
>> this week until I know exactly what I'm supposed to do as well. I'd
>> think we need to reinstall like when we first did our install but
>> not sure. :/
> That was my guess. I should have recorded the options originally
> passed to grub-install. Now that I have BIOS boot partitions (instead
> of using embedded blocklists) on all my machines, reinstalling grub
> should be trivial. I think all I have to do is tell grub-install the
> boot device.
>
>> It would suck to have a unbootable system.
> More than once I've had to boot from either systemrescuecd or minimal
> gentoo install ISO so I could re-install (or re-configure) grub after
> someting gets messed up. It's not difficult, but it is annoying.
>
> --
> Grant
I updated my NAS box OS. It updated grub as well. I figured it would
be a good test system. All I did was this:
nas / # grub-install /dev/sda
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.
nas / #
I rebooted the system and it booted just fine here. According to ls,
files in ls /boot/grub/i386-pc/ were updated. They had today's date.
So, I guess it is pretty simple. Now to remember doing this. Heck,
I've never paid much attention to grub updating before.
Dale
:-) :-)