clr-boot-manager update stopped working

[vavrecan]

I have the following partition setup:

• EFI (boot)
• ext4 (mounted as root /)

After using Clear Linux for some time, I noticed that a /boot directory suddenly appeared on my root filesystem. As a result, running clr-boot-manager update no longer updated the boot records on the EFI partition.

I'm not sure how or why the /boot directory appeared, but the solution was to delete it and then run clr-boot-manager update again. After that, the EFI partition was updated correctly.

Ideally, clr-boot-manager should either:

• have a configuration setting to explicitly define the correct boot target (EFI vs /boot), or
• prioritize updating the EFI partition over any newly created /boot directory on the root filesystem.