(In reply to Martin Wilck from comment #5) > Can you see which packages triggered the update-booloader invocations? Unsure I'll find it from the logs, but my guess is (among others): lvm2, virtual box kernel modules, kernel modules, kernel, mdadm, device mapper, etc. > > Unless I'm mistaken, calling grub2-mkconfig isn't that expensive, unless you > have enabled the OS prober and have a lot of parallel OS installations. On that machine OS-prober is on (it always was), and it takes *a lot* of time. > initramfs building takes much more time. Well I didn't find a way to find the dracut invocations, but my guess is at least 10 during upgrade.