UPDATE-GRUB(8)
โจ UPDATE-GRUB(8) โ NAME โจ
okay so the manual name here is update-grub (and its twin update-grub2) ๐ and the whole vibe is: it's a stub ๐ซถ
๐ธ NAME
update-grub, update-grub2 โ stub for grub-mkconfig ๐
๐ฆ SYNOPSIS
update-grub
bestie, that's literally it. no flags, no arguments, just vibes ๐
๐ DESCRIPTION
okay so update-grub is a stub ๐ง which means it's basically a little shortcut that runs grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg for you โจ and the end result is a grub2 config file generated and sitting at /boot/grub/grub.cfg ๐ฅ so you don't have to type the long version yourself. iconic behaviour, no cap ๐ญ
๐ SEE ALSO
grub-mkconfig(8) ๐
sign-off time ๐ this page is from the System Manager's Manual, the UPDATE-GRUB(8) entry, and it's dated April 2009 ๐ธ stay iconic and keep your bootloader slay ๐ ๐ฉท
๐ฆ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: grub2-common 2.06-13+deb12u1
- debian bookworm: grub2-common 2.06-13+deb12u2
- debian trixie: grub2-common 2.12-9+deb13u2
- ubuntu jammy: grub2-common 2.06-2ubuntu7
- ubuntu jammy: grub2-common 2.06-2ubuntu7.2
- ubuntu noble: grub2-common 2.12-1ubuntu7
- ubuntu noble: grub2-common 2.12-1ubuntu7.3
- ubuntu questing: grub2-common 2.14~git20250718.0e36779-1ubuntu4 ยท GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: grub2-common 2.14-2ubuntu2 ยท GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: grub2-common 2.14-2ubuntu2.1 ยท GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: grub2-common 2.14-2ubuntu3 ยท GPL-3.0-or-later
- Copyright 2009 Felix Zielcke
- ๐ girlified by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms