Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-07 Thread Richard Rosner
On 07.01.24 20:33, songbird wrote: i see you've solved your issue, but i just wanted to point out that it works and is ok for people who want to try it out. Says who?

Re: systemd-boot not asking password, not resuming from hibernate

2024-01-07 Thread Richard Rosner
On 07.01.24 18:07, David Wright wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2024 at 20:04:57 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: I just tried out systemd-boot. What I noticed, it doesn't ask for my decryption password to decrypt both my LUKS2 encrypted root and swap partition. This kinda defeats the purpose of encrypted

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-07 Thread Richard Rosner
On 04.01.24 19:49, Richard Rosner wrote: On 04.01.24 19:02, David Wright wrote: Could you post the new grub.cfg file, so that people running testing, and following along the thread later, can see how boot-repair fixed it? Cheers, David. Let's hope the mailing list let's this go through

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-07 Thread Richard Rosner
On 07.01.24 18:07, David Wright wrote: I compared your new grub.cfg with mine (suitably decimated and edited) and the significant differences are very few; extra modules are loaded: cryptodisk, luks2, gcry_rijndael, gcry_rijndael and gcry_sha256. Myset root='hd0,gpt5' is replaced by set

systemd-boot not asking password, not resuming from hibernate

2024-01-06 Thread Richard Rosner
I just tried out systemd-boot. What I noticed, it doesn't ask for my decryption password to decrypt both my LUKS2 encrypted root and swap partition. This kinda defeats the purpose of encrypted drives. How do I have systemd-boot forget and never again remember my credentials? For the

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
On 04.01.24 19:02, David Wright wrote: Could you post the new grub.cfg file, so that people running testing, and following along the thread later, can see how boot-repair fixed it? Cheers, David. Let's hope the mailing list let's this go through. Keep in mind, this is based on the

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
(or better decryption) better than Grub — especially with LUKS2 grub seems a bit unreasonably slow. On 04.01.24 11:56, Richard Rosner wrote: Good to know that it should be possible. But as mentioned, these symbols only offer me to boot from grub or fwupd. F2 also doesn't show that much more

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
You should really re-read the FAQ that was sent in just two days ago... On January 4, 2024 11:58:28 AM GMT+01:00, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 2:45 AM Richard Rosner wrote: >> >> Wow, what a bunch of unhelpful comments. >> >> First, if it wasn't

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-04 Thread Richard Rosner
partition and then try to install rEFInd. I'll have to check. On Thu, Jan 4, 2024, 09:29 Joel Roth wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 08:23:29PM +0100, Richard Rosner wrote: > > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I > today > > tried to just repl

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
at hand, but to the original question - and as such an entirely different topic - I'm rewriting this to the old topic too. On Thu, Jan 4, 2024, 02:12 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM Richard Rosner > wrote: > > > > So, since for whatever reason Grub

Re: Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
other than snarky remarks, just don't answer. On Thu, Jan 4, 2024, 02:12 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Jan 3, 2024 at 2:24 PM Richard Rosner > wrote: > > > > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, > > I seriously doubt this is the case. I'm gue

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
l together. On 03.01.24 21:04, Eddie wrote: I have had very good results using "Boot-Repair" software to recover Grub difficulties. Eddie On 1/3/24 14:23, Richard Rosner wrote: So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I today tried to just replace it with

Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing]

2024-01-03 Thread Richard Rosner
? Is rEFInd really just something to select between different OSs (and not just different distributions like Grub can very well do) and then gives the rest over to their bootloaders or am I missing something so rEFInd will take over all of Grubs jobs? On 01.01.24 21:45, Richard Rosner wrote

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
On 01.01.24 21:20, Richard Rosner wrote: On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote: I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's uneccessarily difficult to find some sort

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote: I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's uneccessarily difficult to find some sort of guide how to even do this, it might

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
(also LUKS1). For me it looks like the grub.cfg has everything it needs to work. On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote: On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 17:55:29 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: On January 1, 2024 5:43:12 PM GMT+01:00, David Wright wrote: Like this? └─sda6

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
Yes, exactly. Is there a way to show that from inside Grub? Lsblk and blkid aren't available there? On January 1, 2024 5:43:12 PM GMT+01:00, David Wright wrote: >Like this? > > └─sda6 8:60 406.2G 0 part >

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
terminal where you can just look inside /dev/mapper and see the true path that needs to be entered. Question is, how do I repair the boot process so I don't have to boot by hand every time? On January 1, 2024 12:52:40 PM GMT+01:00, Richard Rosner wrote: >I do not see an answer to my questions.

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
I do not see an answer to my questions. > On Jan 1, 2024, at 11:52, Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > > On 1 Jan 2024 11:46 +0100, from rich...@rosner-online.de (Richard Rosner): >> I'm not sure what you meant with "rescue mode", but I've reins

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Rosner
; wrote: > > On 1 Jan 2024 09:16 +0100, from rich...@rosner-online.de (Richard Rosner): >> could you please check if you received either of my two tries to get >> this answer through the mailing list? > > I did not. Maybe they are held for moderation due to size? > >

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-29 Thread Richard Rosner
. For a fraction of a second it shows something about slot 0 open, that's it. > On Dec 29, 2023, at 20:37, Richard Rosner wrote: > > As far as I can tell, /boot and /boot/grub are the same filesystem. After > all, I didn't really do anything custom. Just your default LUKS

Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-29 Thread Richard Rosner
Hey, I have quite the strange issue. After updating a bunch of packages today [1], mostly related to systemd, gstreamer and udev, and restarting my device, it no longer boots. I have an encrypted system. So I do get asked for my decryption password as usual, but a few seconds later, instead of