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

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

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 years; ever since I
> > graduated to an EFI system. I don't follow the wiki because of the
> > resulting impenetrable thicket of unpronounceable names and 32-digit hex
> > numbers. Fine for a distro builder, perhaps, but not for me thank you -
> > especially as I want a selection of kernels to boot from, which I never
> > did work out how to achieve following the official advice.

Er... some misattribution here. Those six lines were mine, not Alan's.

> That's my problem too ...
> 
> If I want a multiboot system, with just ONE bootloader, eg grub, I do
> NOT want a distro install mechanism messing about with the other
> distros. ESPECIALLY if (I'm looking at you, SUSE) you mess it up so YOU
> can't boot, and neither can anything else!
> 
> (And no,I don't expect gentoo to get it right, either.)

Gentoo does what it can, but it certainly needs some help to make the system 
work as the sysop wants it, even if there's no other distro present.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.