On 31/07/2024 at 00:38, Thomas Hahn wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:00:51 +0200 Pascal Hambourg
<pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>
> firmware-nvidia-graphics was installed on systems which already had
> firmware-misc-nonfree because firmware-misc-nonfree recommends
> firmware-misc-nonfree so that systems which rely on Nvidia firmware are
> not disrupted.
Is it possible to only install it on systems, which have a NVIDIA
graphics card?
Maybe firmware-misc-nonfree could check if a Nvidia GPU is present then
trigger installation of firmware-nvidia-graphics instead of recommending
firmware-nvidia-graphics. Sounds quite convoluted. Can apt be invoked
from a package postinst script ?
I am using a separate boot partition, because the other main partititon
is luks encrypted.
I don't see any other reason to have a separate partition.
There are many other reasons to have a separate /boot, here are those
which come to my mind:
- the firmware does not support / physical storage
- the firmware cannot address the full / physical storage range
- the boot loader does not support / filesystem or block layer
- GRUB may not support some RAID, LVM, LUKS or filesystem features
- GRUB <= 2.12 has a bug with LVM metadata wrap-around
- filesystems spanning multiple disks (striped RAID, LVM, btrfs...) can
be tricky for GRUB
