[bitfolk] Re: Ubuntu 24.04 grub package update issue

Hi Ian, On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 09:50:03AM +0000, Ian via BitFolk Users wrote: Interesting. Was this a clean install of Ubuntu 24.04 or an upgrade from 22.04? You are not affected because you already have a bios_boot partition; it is partition number 14 here, a 4MiB partition between sectors 2048 and 10239. You also have what I assume is an EFI System Partition (type EF00) as #15. Both of these are what grub wants to see, so no problems. All the affected users installed 24.04 directly and I can replicate their problem as the cloud disk image that the installer uses does not have a bios_boot nor an ESP. It is written directly to the VPS xvda disk so whatever is in the cloud disk image is what ends up as the initial state of the VPS, that cloud-init then customises. So, now the only way I can understand what is going on is if: a) The 22.04 disk image is different and you upgraded from that or b) the 24.04 disk image has changed at some point. Either way, probably I should be adjusting the 24.04 disk image to be like the 22.04 one. I already adjusted it to have a bios_boot but I may as well add an ESP and renumber the partitions as well. It seems very unlikely that you have been affected in any way as I'm sure you would remember repartitioning your disk to include two new partitions. 😀 Thanks, Andy PS The 22.04 cloud image was definitely different: $ sudo gdisk -l ./jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.disk GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.3 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk ./jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.disk: 4612096 sectors, 2.2 GiB Sector size (logical): 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 1632EDC1-5D6E-4B1A-9DF5-D1C3D193B0F3 Partition table holds up to 128 entries Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33 First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 4612062 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 227328 4612062 2.1 GiB 8300 14 2048 10239 4.0 MiB EF02 15 10240 227327 106.0 MiB EF00 -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting