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| DATE | 2020-11-10 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir via artix-general
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] [artix-general] updates keep blowing away my
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 06:05:18PM -0800, Artix wrote:
> This really depends how your bootloader is set up.
The way the docs read this has nothing to do with the boot loader but it
has to do with the EFI specification
If you put the EFI anywhere else, you have to drag the kernel images
around, as you describe.
> I still have my EFI
> partition on /boot/efi. The only difference is if your bootloader
> requires the kernel/initramfs to be on the EFI partition, they must be
> manually copied (or done automatically using pacman hooks).
>
> For example, I use EFISTUB to boot (so no bootloader),
of course there is. For one the UEFI shell is a boot loader, and it is
true if you set it up correctly you don't need a secondary loader
meaqnwhile grub-install is now hanging....
> meaning I have to
> manually move the images to /boot/efi when updating (although now I use
> sbupdate to automate that).
>
> It's been a while since I last used GRUB, but IIRC, you have to instruct
> GRUB where the EFI partition is and where the kernels are when
> installing GRUB, e.g:
> # grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-directory=/boot
>
> On 20/11/10 08:51PM, Ruben Safir via artix-general wrote:
> > One thing I've noticed from the docs is that to GPT disks... and this
> > NEEDS to be in the instructions... it USED to say to put the EFI
> > partition under /boot/efi
> >
> > It now insitist that won't work anymore (and maybe that is why it will
> > not reboot?) and the boot partition needs to be either moved to /boot
> > or to /efi
> >
> > This is a vital change.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:16:07PM -0500, Artix wrote:
> > > I've been using artix now for YEARS since it nearly started and I've
> > > gooten pretty good at pulling it apart, but the stabilty of late has
> > > been non-existent. With every upgrade now I have to hold my breath in
> > > the hope it goes smoothly. WHen the kernel is being updated, the entire
> > > system goes toast. For the last three times that I've updated the
> > > kernel, it not only hangs the box, but it ends up with a zero size file
> > > for vmlinux or whatever it is called this week.
> > >
> > > What is going on?
> > >
> > > And it just will not shutdown smoothly. I can walk away after running
> > > shutdown -r now and it is still hanging after haveg and then you pull
> > > the plug and it won't reboot.
> > >
> > > And then there is something going on with gnome or gtk that it is
> > > hanging up firefox and thunderbird. Thunderbird and fireforx stop
> > > taking inputs from the mouse and wiggle it and it responds. I don't
> > > even know what that is.
> > >
> > > I've wasted three hours tonight trying to put together my workstation.
> > >
> > > I know you guys are volunteers and working hard, but this is completely
> > > self destructive. This system has been practically rock solid for
> > > nearly 5 years, and now it is coming apart at the seems.
> > >
> > > Ruben
> > >
> > > --
> > > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> > > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> > > http://www.mrbrklyn.com
> > >
> > > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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> > >
> > > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
> > > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
> > >
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> > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> > http://www.mrbrklyn.com
> >
> > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> > http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
> > http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> > http://www.brooklyn-living.com
> >
> > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
> > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
> >
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
http://www.mrbrklyn.com
DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive
http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
http://www.brooklyn-living.com
Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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