From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE79D15812D for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5192E078A; Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.20]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (prime256v1) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 68627E075F for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:51:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=cube.localnet) by smarthost01a.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1tRsla-00F12Z-7J for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:51:35 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fun with systemd-boot Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:51:35 +0000 Message-ID: <5849951.DvuYhMxLoT@cube> In-Reply-To: <57a70a07-5191-458a-9aef-6536b81c7877@youngman.org.uk> References: <3620457.iIbC2pHGDl@cube> <57a70a07-5191-458a-9aef-6536b81c7877@youngman.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 520d64e5-c7a2-4730-9912-fde4140ed439 X-Archives-Hash: 852df96647ef80d7e6839d7a4b4be79f 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.