On 05/05/2026 at 13:41, Steve McIntyre wrote:
Yup, that's exactly where I was going. Unfortunately, lots of people just end up copying a grub binary into place once (whether by directly copying, or by using grub-install manually) and that works *now* but leaves them primed for a fall on future upgrades. It's been a problem for years with BIOS boot, but we can't 100% solve that due to the space limitations and needing a core images.
Do you mean the size of the gap between the MBR and the first partition or the BIOS boot partition (usually ~1MB) ? Do you have an idea of the size of a grub-pc monolithic image ?
Switching to the monolithic image for EFI is possible, and it's time we just did it.
It would solve the core image vs module version mismatch but not the fact that the active boot image is not updated, it would only make it unnoticed.
