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From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: znavko--- via <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to secure Grub control from other distro?
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 04:11:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210212041154.567b3682@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1b5d702f00cc6f82e2ced9ce31e3060d@disroot.org>

On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 22:31:47 +0000
znavko--- via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hello! I have two distros on my PC:
> on /dev/sda - Guix
> on /dev/sdc - Ubuntu
> 
> Today, after update and upgrade of newly installed Ubuntu and also
> after installation of lubuntu-desktop and lxde on ubuntu, I was
> unfortunately grieved. Lubuntu had recovered my Grub and had broken
> everything! I was need to boot into Guix with grub command line and
> make `guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm` for to get my Grub
> controlling by Guix again!
> 
> I have a question. Have I any possibility to secure and save my Grub
> from other buggy distros i may setup on other ssd in my pc?
> 
> I think it will be hard to fight with ubuntu or debian or some other
> distro not to touch Grub.

My guess is that there is no universal way. Maybe remove the grub
package from Ubuntu? I don't have anything Debian based to test it
with, but I think that would disable the upgrade hooks that run
grub-mkconfig.


      reply	other threads:[~2021-02-12  5:14 UTC|newest]

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2020-12-07 22:31 How to secure Grub control from other distro? znavko--- via
2021-02-12  3:11 ` raingloom [this message]

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