Re: Any progress with grub-installer?
On 7 Jan 2019, at 20:47, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@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
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