On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 19:51:43 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
> >It also brings cross-architecture portability;
>
> I'm not sure in what way it does this, but I'm sure it could have been
> done in a much simpler way.
The principle being that your UEFI code will run on ARM, AMD64, IA64,
or whatever oth
On 9/3/24 4:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
How
solidly I wish LILO would work with UEFI so that I could dump this
Grub3 albatross.
I feel like rEFInd is about the simplest EFI boot manager. It's been
letting me avoid using Grub for years.
DR
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 13:26:45 -0700
Kent Borg wrote:
> When I first poked my head down into EFI I was horrified: A whole
> damn OS down there. (Why does everything need to be an OS‽‽)
A number, in fact a litany of reasons.
Starting with securing the boot process against attack.
It also brings c
> Do any of you quickly know what is needed to be modern Linux boot
> partitions?
>
> I have a /boot and a /boot/efi that Debain installed on my internal SSD
> and I would like to duplicate them on an external device. What do I need?
>
> - partition as a GPT not MBR table
>
> - format /boot with so
On 9/3/24 13:08, Steve Litt wrote:
etter yet, to forget UEFI ever existed
When I first poked my head down into EFI I was horrified: A whole damn
OS down there. (Why does everything need to be an OS‽‽)
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On 9/3/24 10:48, Kent Borg wrote:
Oh. I grew up on systems that couldn't talk past a certain
distance into a disk. (Was that a lilo restriction? Old MBR?)
That went away with 64 bit systems and the GPT partitioning
system 15 years ago.
When you say ssd is that really an nvme?
I would say
On 9/3/24 03:56, jbk wrote:
Create the esp partition at the end of the drive then. You can have as
many as you need.
Oh. I grew up on systems that couldn't talk past a certain distance into
a disk. (Was that a lilo restriction? Old MBR?)
When you say ssd is that really an nvme?
I would
On Tue, Sep 03, 2024 at 05:22:11AM -0400, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> It handles things like file permissions pretty well. One downside is
> that as far as I know it only handles files in /etc.
> It would be nice to use it more generically to manage configuration
> files on other directories.
looks li
Bill Bogstad wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:43 PM Daniel Barrett
> wrote:
>
> > I do something similar but slightly more automated. I use git to
> > capture every change I make to system files. Basically, I initialize a
> > git repository in (say) ~/SystemChanges and create a duplicate, spa
On 9/3/24 01:14, Kent Borg wrote:
On 9/2/24 13:31, jbk wrote:
If you do the grub install on the destination machine it
should do the efibootmgr step for you.
It looks like grub-install does most what I need, maybe
followed by a grub-update for good measure.
But getting things set up correct
On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:43 PM Daniel Barrett
wrote:
> I do something similar but slightly more automated. I use git to
> capture every change I make to system files. Basically, I initialize a
> git repository in (say) ~/SystemChanges and create a duplicate, sparse
> directory structure contain
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