Kernel Upgrade and EFI Partition Questions?

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Recovering from /boot weirdness

If you suddenly find your system booting an older kernel, even though you know a new one’s available, and you’ve even used clr-boot-manager to select it explicitly, there’s a chance you’ve run into a very specific failure scenario. Background Clear Linux uses UEFI to boot. UEFI looks for an EFI Service Partition (ESP) on your hard drive to load the bootloader and kernel from The ESP is usually VFAT-formatted We keep the partition unmounted after boot because it’s easy to corrupt Our tools (e.g…