Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 28 December 2024 21:53:53 Greenwich Mean Time Wols Lists wrote: > On 18/12/2024 14:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> I've been having fun with systemd-boot. > > > > I've been using bootctl from systemd-utils for some yea

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 19/12/2024 15:46, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I amn't absolutely sure what started writing stuff onto /dev/nvme1n1p2, but I strongly suspect it was systemd-boot, still. I'm sure that on my old machine it was bootctl install that wrote the executable file onto the EFI partition that WASN'T mounted a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/12/2024 14:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: I've been having fun with systemd-boot. I've been using bootctl from systemd-utils for some years; ever since I graduated to an EFI system. I don't follow the wiki because of the resulti

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-19 Thread Michael
On Thursday 19 December 2024 15:46:06 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > OK, I'm flogging a dead horse here, but the correct error message would > have been along the lines: > >File or directory not found: /dev/sda1/EFI/whatever. Yes, it would be reasonable to expect at least this much. Perhaps ef

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 10:59:54 +, Michael wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 21:31:42 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 15:58:14 +, Michael wrote: > > > On an OpenRC system without GRUB, rEFInd is a good choice, or for a > > > totally manual appro

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 15:58:14 GMT Michael wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 14:30:12 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This is the relevant parts of the kernel make script on my little i5 NUC > Not relevant to the OP, but why don't you build the µcode blob in the kernel > itself for a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-19 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 21:31:42 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Michael. > > Thanks for the reply. > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 15:58:14 +, Michael wrote: > > On an OpenRC system without GRUB, rEFInd is a good choice, or for a > > totally > > manual approach use the efibootmgr: > >

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
-- Original Message -- From "Alan Mackenzie" To gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date 18.12.2024 22:31:42 Subject Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot Also, none of the documentation was explicit in saying that with efibootmgr, you have to go into the BIOS setup to select

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Michael. Thanks for the reply. On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 15:58:14 +, Michael wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 14:30:12 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > I've been having fun with systemd-boot. [ ] > > > Could

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 14:30:12 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I've been having fun with systemd-boot. > > I've been using bootctl from systemd-utils for some years; ever since I > graduated to an EFI system. I don't follow t

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 December 2024 12:13:59 GMT Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've been having fun with systemd-boot. I've been using bootctl from systemd-utils for some years; ever since I graduated to an EFI system. I don't follow the wiki because of the resulting impenetrable thicket of unpronounceable

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
--- Original message --- From: Alan Mackenzie To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 14:41:00 +0100 Hello, Arsen. On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 13:50:09 +0100, Arsen Arsenović

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Arsen. On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 13:50:09 +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > Hi Alan, > Alan Mackenzie writes: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've been having fun with systemd-boot. > > On my new (2024-08) machine, on Friday 2024-12-06, I suddenly noticed > > that my /boot partition was empty, I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Joost Roeleveld
ember 2024 13:13 To: [gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org] Subject: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot Hello, Gentoo. I've been having fun with systemd-boot. On my new (2024-08) machine, on Friday 2024-12-06, I suddenly noticed that my /boot partition was empty, I can't remember why I looked at

Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Arsen Arsenović
Hi Alan, Alan Mackenzie writes: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've been having fun with systemd-boot. > > On my new (2024-08) machine, on Friday 2024-12-06, I suddenly noticed > that my /boot partition was empty, I can't remember why I looked at it. > I am quite sure I didn't empty it myself. There then

[gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot

2024-12-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. I've been having fun with systemd-boot. On my new (2024-08) machine, on Friday 2024-12-06, I suddenly noticed that my /boot partition was empty, I can't remember why I looked at it. I am quite sure I didn't empty it myself. There then followed a couple of hours where I restored th