On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:44 AM Peter King via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> A measure of success! > > Instead of trying to boot from the NVMe drive, I updated the SATA SSD drive > and set it up to boot EFI-stub. It booted right up, updated things, and > generally settled into the new hardware with only minor problems. So far, > then, it seems clear that I had at least two problems: (a) disabling Secure > Boot, and (b) some undiagnosed problems about booting from the NVMe > drive. > > While (a) might have been anticipated, (b) was a surprise, and I still > don't know why the NVMe drive is problematic. But I can solve that > problem > later, with the help of all the suggestions and advice people have offered. > Once I iron out the minor problems (no network), I'll then try booting from > the NVMe drive via a bootloader -- rEFInd and GRUB2 have been proposed -- > to see if that helps. But having a working system makes it much less > urgent. > If you are currently using GRUB apparently a package update has blundered an initramfs hook. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arch-new-kernel-packages-and-mkinitcpio-hooks/110960 According to this post, that issue is solvable. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250674 In a nutshell ... sudo mkinitcpio -P sudo update-grub > > Thanks again to one and all! > > -- > Peter King [email protected] > Department of Philosophy > 170 St. George Street #521 > The University of Toronto (416)-946-3170 ofc > Toronto, ON M5R 2M8 > CANADA > > http://individual.utoronto.ca/pking/ > > ========================================================================= > GPG keyID 0x7587EC42 (2B14 A355 46BC 2A16 D0BC 36F5 1FE6 D32A 7587 EC42) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7587EC42 > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Russell
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