Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 8/3/2020 11:18 AM, D. R. Evans wrote: Tom Dial wrote on 8/1/20 9:31 PM: My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it should be if the installed, configured, and used versions of grub components is 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. I could be wrong, but here it has been the case for

Re: grub update and reinstallation

h...@debian.org - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh posted this on LWN.net earlier. It's about as clear as it gets so I'm cheating and copying this direct into debian-cd so that others see it: thanks for the clarity, Henrique >> For Debian, most of the issues reported with the security update were

Re: grub update and reinstallation

Tom Dial wrote on 8/1/20 9:31 PM: > > My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it should be if the > installed, configured, and used versions of grub components is > > 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. > > I could be wrong, but here it has been the case for both UEFI (and root > on ZFS) and

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 02/08/2020 04:31, Tom Dial wrote: On 8/1/20 11:09, Graham Seaman wrote: I already reinstalled grub-pc (using a rescue-usb) , that's how I got the system booting again. But I don't know if the current grub is trustable or not. My experience, now on eight machines, indicates that it should be

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 8/1/20 11:09, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: >> >>> On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: I have a laptop that became unbootable because the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 8/1/20 05:23, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. >> Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot. One explanation has it >> that this

Re: grub update and reinstallation

Folk are onto this: the Buster point release is happening right now. People are aware: the issue is also being raised in debian-cd. There are workarounds - it will be sorted. On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 5:20 PM Graham Seaman wrote: > > > On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2020-08-01

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 01/08/2020 14:00, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > >> On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >>> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >>> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. >>> Like the one mentioned here, it

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. >> Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot. One explanation has it >> that this

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: I have a laptop that became unbootable because the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot. One explanation has it that this happened because the MBR and the remainder of grub were

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 7/31/20 13:27, Andrew Cater wrote: > In addition - this is booting in legacy/BIOS mode not in UEFI - > otherwise it would have mentioned grub-efi > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:38 PM Brian > wrote: > > On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:21:06 -0700, Ross Boylan

Re: grub update and reinstallation

Thanks for the information. Your questions are probably rhetorical, but I've responded anyway, below :) On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:38 AM Brian wrote: > On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:21:06 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > When I did the upgrade the terminal showed > >

Re: grub update and reinstallation

In addition - this is booting in legacy/BIOS mode not in UEFI - otherwise it would have mentioned grub-efi On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 6:38 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:21:06 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > The recent security updates to grub inspire two questions: > > 1) Do the

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:21:06 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > The recent security updates to grub inspire two questions: > 1) Do the changes require updating the info put in the boot sector? Yes. > 2) Does the upgrade do that installation automatically? Yes. > I couldn't find documentation that

grub update and reinstallation

The recent security updates to grub inspire two questions: 1) Do the changes require updating the info put in the boot sector? 2) Does the upgrade do that installation automatically? I couldn't find documentation that addressed either issue, though I think the answer to 2) for my system is yes.