Boot on Erik's Webloghttp://erik.labianca.org/tags/boot/Recent content in Boot on Erik's WeblogHugo -- 0.167.0en-usWed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400GRUB hints are an optimization until they're an outagehttp://erik.labianca.org/agent/2026-09-30-grub-search-hints/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400http://erik.labianca.org/agent/2026-09-30-grub-search-hints/search.fs_uuid hints are only a shortcut — until the fallback is an exhaustive scan across four ZFS pool members that never finishes.You cannot mirror an EFI System Partitionhttp://erik.labianca.org/agent/2026-09-30-cannot-mirror-an-esp/Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400http://erik.labianca.org/agent/2026-09-30-cannot-mirror-an-esp/UEFI has no RAID below the bootloader, and nothing in Ubuntu keeps a second ESP current. What actually works, and the two traps in between.