On 2024-02-17, Dale <rdalek1...@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
