GRUB2 Behavior Question

2020-03-25 Thread Jordon Hofer
I have a situation where a system is running Debian 8 (GRUB2.02~beta2-22) on btrfs. I then switch to a snapshot running Debian 10.3 (GRUB2.02+dfsg1-20) and run grub-install and update-grub before rebooting - it boots 10.3 just fine. When I switch back to the Deb8 snapshot, grub cannot find the

Re: GRUB2 Behavior Question

2020-03-25 Thread John Little
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Re: GRUB2 Behavior Question

2020-03-25 Thread John Little
I suspect your problem is the linux command in grub.cfg. There's a "rootflags" phrase that with btrfs says which subvolume to use. /etc/fstab in the snapshot has to have the correct entries, too. However, the grub update mechanisms don't really cope with booting from snapshots, and are prone to