I am performing the optional post upgrade steps after upgrading Fedora 40 to Fedora 41. How do I know if I need to perform the “Update GRUB bootloader on BIOS systems” step?
This is the result I got for finding the device node of the /boot directory:
wiking@fedora:~$ sudo mount | grep "/boot "
/dev/nvme1n1p2 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel)
If you just upgraded it is not likely that you need to perform those steps.
What guide are you using for that procedure?
Fedora has moved on from most of those guides and I have seen cases where the post upgrade steps actually broke the system.
You should perform the upgrade then reboot. Do nothing additional unless the boot fails after the upgrade and actions taken at that point should be focused on the symptoms and not a general guide.
Very few systems ever need anything beyond the initial system-upgrade to be performed. Note that the guide shows all that as Optional post-upgrade tasks.
I interpret that to mean something on the order of do this only if the system needs it and that can only be determined in most cases by using the system after upgrade to identify problems that may exist.
Those two segments go hand in hand.
One is the [optional but seldom necessary segment] and the following is the [guide to solving identified issues segment]
If you choose to use either of those segments of the guide it is entirely up to you and your perceived needs.
Personally I have never, on any of my systems, seen a need to perform any of those steps.
Each step allows one to diagnose whether there is a problem before trying to fix it. I did notice that I had a bunch of dangling symlinks after the upgrade and it didn’t seem like a bad idea to get rid of them. I also didn’t see a problem with using the .rpmnew files (“maintainer’s version”) where they existed because I have never edited any configuration files anyways. Since I don’t have UEFI instead of BIOS I knew to skip this step here.