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Re: Grub-less installation of stretch

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Le 08/10/2018 à 22:23, David Wright a écrit :
> On Mon 08 Oct 2018 at 20:20:24 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> 
>> So it may be advisable to install at least grub-common and use
>> grub-mkconfig to generate /boot/grub/grub.cfg. If you also want to
>> automatically update grub.cfg after a kernel package installation or
>> removal, you may either install grub-pc (or any other grub flavour
>> available in the arch) - without installing the boot loader - or
>> create your own scripts in /etc/kernel/post{inst,rm}.d/ to do
>> basically the same as zz-update-grub provided by grub-pc.
> 
> OK. I think I'll install those as grub does seem to do some reasonably
> complicated stuff which I don't fancy duplicating.

zz-update-grub is a very simple script. Basically it just checks the 
presence of update-grub and runs it. A custom script would just need to 
call grub-mkconfig.

> The main thing is
> for me to check that nothing can touch the MBR

Then you can install grub-efi. It won't ever write anything to the MBR. 
But if an EFI partition is mounted on /boot/efi, it will write on it and 
will try to register in the EFI NVRAM boot variables.

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Grub-less installation of stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-08 18:40 +0200
  Re: Grub-less installation of stretch Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-08 20:30 +0200
    Re: Grub-less installation of stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-08 22:30 +0200
      Re: Grub-less installation of stretch Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-10-08 23:50 +0200
        Re: Grub-less installation of stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-10-09 22:10 +0200

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