On Tue, May 05, 2026 at 03:47:07PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >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 ?
Correct. I don't have an idea of the size of a monolithic grub-pc image, it's not something we ever do. >> 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. Nod; the most important thing is that users don't end up with unbootable systems on upgrade. It's not possible to fix the general case here, IMHO. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer
