Grub instructions in pacman.log after [Stable Update] 2024-12-06

[mkb]

Thanks @Teo. That’s exactly what I did install manually because of a discussion in one of the [Stable] announcement discussions. Unfortunately I couldn’t remember the details but only that I installed something in the past for automatic grub updates respectively something with grub and updates.

The discussion of @philm for install-grub:

Install-grub: a new way to keep your EFI/MBR in-sync with grub package

Some might not know that when updating the grub package you’re actually only update GRUB partly. This also creates some issues with your system if an older grub got installed but doesn’t match configurations and scripts. This script fixes most of our installation cases. If you have a fancy partition layout or some extra stuff ongoing, it may fail as explained here: Re: [Regression] efi: Don't display a uefi-firmware entry if it's not su You can now install the package install-grub. It comes wit…

For sake of completeness here are the contents of the two hooks:

98-install-grub.hook

[Trigger]
Type = Package
Operation = Upgrade
Target = grub

[Action]
Description = Installing Grub to MBR/EFI
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/install-grub

99-update-grub.hook

[Trigger]
Type = Path
Operation = Install
Operation = Upgrade
Operation = Remove
Target = usr/lib/modules/*/vmlinuz
Target = boot/vmlinuz*

[Action]
Description = Updating Grub-Bootmenu
When = PostTransaction
Exec = /usr/bin/update-grub