(Another) Cockpit question - how to re-set the Bootloader

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With the news that Yast could be replaced with Cockpit & Myrlyn in the future I have installed both on my Tumbleweed system. I can do all the things, without yast, with the exception of re-installing the bootloader - how do you do this with Cockpit? Thanks

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@dth2 Hi, using systemd boot?

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I am using Grub2 to boot

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@dth2 then if you make modifications to grub, then need to use the command line as specified in /etc/default/grub which is grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

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It does not reinstall bootloader - it only rebuilds configuration of the already installed bootloader. And depending on the changes in the /etc/default/grub you may need to also update another configuration file. And you will need to learn new tricks if SUSE switched bootloader.

update-bootloader does the right thing for all supported bootloaders.

Mod Edit: Unnecessary comment removed.

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Thanks very much for the posts.

Next time I plan to do a fresh install I will have a practice of re-installing / re-building Grub.