On 7 Jan 2019, at 20:47, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > On 1/7/19 9:23 PM, Frank Scheiner wrote: >>> Yes, but I know what I did. I‘m not sure why you are questioning that. Do >>> you see any unexpected results? >> >> No, but from the `grub-install` output I didn't expect that the installation >> worked and after comparing the versions of v1 and v2, I just wanted to be >> sure about the details. I was not questioning what you did. :-) > > Well, I was sure the installation didn't work either. But after rebooting, > the GRUB > version in the boot menu was bumped. So the bootloader was most likely > rewritten.
Maybe. I wouldn't be surprised if sector 0 still has the old boot.img, but is loading the newer kernel.img or whatever is the next stage from /boot. That version number in the fancy boot menu almost certainly doesn't live in sector 0, 512 bytes (or 816 bytes) is really not very much at all. James
