Transplanting Ubuntu 24.04.1 server to new hardware, best approach?

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 08:14:31PM +0000, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 at 19:57, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > FWIW, if you're running on UEFI, then the installation device argument
> > is ignored, since it doesn't make sense on UEFI: grub-install always
> > copies GRUB into /boot/efi/ and adjusts NVRAM variables to point to it
> > in general.  So just `grub-install` as root is enough.
> 
> Interesting. I have a ThinkPad whose (NVRAM settings I believe) still think
> that Windows, another Linux, and Ubuntu are all installed on it. Only
> Ubuntu is installed on it. I don't dare mess around with the UEFI settings
> just yet but are there any commands/applications that will reveal what is
> stored in NVRAM?

efibootmgr

> I have also heard there is a UEFI rootkit out there that targets Linux
> systems. Is there a way to check for that?

Don't know (at least without more details), sorry.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]