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On 04/12/2021 15:53, Dale wrote: |
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> While I'm at it. When the grub package upgrades, should I reinstall |
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> with grub-install to update what is on the drive or is it safe to just |
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> leave it as is? I seem to recall a upgrade to grub a while back. It |
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> just dawned on me that while the package is updated, what is installed |
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> on the hard drive boot part with grub-install is still the original from |
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> ages ago when I first built this rig. Thoughts?? |
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I don't think I've ever updated what's in the mbr. It doesn't really |
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matter in that it just hands over to the real linux and root. I think it |
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would be rather hard to compromise, and anyway if anything has got so |
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far as to tamper with your boot, I think the game is over anyway. |
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Most changes of any consequence will be to the user-space code anyway, |
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not the actual boot stuff. |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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