On 5/21/23 10:20 PM, Mike Wright wrote:
On 5/21/23 20:02, home user wrote:
> On 5/18/23 4:21 PM, home user wrote:
>> [... snip ...]
>
> There are two more /boot subdirectories I want to look at:
> /boot/grub2/i386-pc/
> /boot/grub2/themes/starfield/
> I did an "ls -lRt" on /boot/grub2/ and put the output (as a text file) onto
the google drive here:
>
"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YymPG9fvQQwjTtHOG6G0g2lpeuvx3tMW/view?usp=sharing".
>
> I notice that the i386-pc subdirectory has numerous (over 275) files: 2 from Oct. 10,
2019, and all the rest from July 06, 2017. But should not assume that being old means
they're no longer needed.
> My question: Is anything in this directory still needed. I'd like to either
delete the whole subdirectory or keep the whole subdirectory. I don't want to do
anything here file-by-file.
They are actually very small and they are CRITICAL. If you look through your grub config
you'll come across the command "insmod", short for "insert
module", many, many times. Those modules, the ones in i386-pc, are the ones insmod
is referring to. Without them your machine couldn't boot.
I understand.
Thank-you, Mike.
I will leave that sub-directory untouched.
Interesting how stable that sub-directory is.