On 04/12/2021 15:53, Dale wrote:
While I'm at it. When the grub package upgrades, should I reinstall with grub-install to update what is on the drive or is it safe to just leave it as is? I seem to recall a upgrade to grub a while back. It just dawned on me that while the package is updated, what is installed on the hard drive boot part with grub-install is still the original from ages ago when I first built this rig. Thoughts??
I don't think I've ever updated what's in the mbr. It doesn't really matter in that it just hands over to the real linux and root. I think it would be rather hard to compromise, and anyway if anything has got so far as to tamper with your boot, I think the game is over anyway.
Most changes of any consequence will be to the user-space code anyway, not the actual boot stuff.
Cheers, Wol
