Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2024-02-01-grub-upgrades: add news item
On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 6:44 AM Christian Bricart wrote: > > Am 28.01.24 um 17:25 schrieb Mike Gilbert: > > […] > > +On upgrades, it is common for users to mismatch the grub-install options > > +they used for the current and previous versions of grub. This will cause > > +a stale core image to exist. For example: > > + > > +/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (grub 2.06 core image) > > +/boot/efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi (grub 2.12 core image) > > +/boot/grub/x86_64-pc/*.mod (grub 2.12 modules) > > despite x64, the path is always /boot/grub/i386-pc/*.mod for > GRUB_PLATFORMS=pc Fixed. https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=e0e93c981baef4a697dac91e8a9efed0a4a204b5
Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2024-02-01-grub-upgrades: add news item
On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 5:44 AM Christian Bricart wrote: > > Am 28.01.24 um 17:25 schrieb Mike Gilbert: > > […] > > +On upgrades, it is common for users to mismatch the grub-install options > > +they used for the current and previous versions of grub. This will cause > > +a stale core image to exist. For example: > > + > > +/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (grub 2.06 core image) > > +/boot/efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi (grub 2.12 core image) > > +/boot/grub/x86_64-pc/*.mod (grub 2.12 modules) > > despite x64, the path is always /boot/grub/i386-pc/*.mod for > GRUB_PLATFORMS=pc > > Christian Also odd to conflate -pc and -efi setups in the same news item. If you installed to EFI, your modules are installed in /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/. If you installed "pc", e.g. old BIOS boot, you won't have those .efi files.
Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2024-02-01-grub-upgrades: add news item
Am 28.01.24 um 17:25 schrieb Mike Gilbert: […] +On upgrades, it is common for users to mismatch the grub-install options +they used for the current and previous versions of grub. This will cause +a stale core image to exist. For example: + +/boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI (grub 2.06 core image) +/boot/efi/EFI/gentoo/grubx64.efi (grub 2.12 core image) +/boot/grub/x86_64-pc/*.mod (grub 2.12 modules) despite x64, the path is always /boot/grub/i386-pc/*.mod for GRUB_PLATFORMS=pc Christian