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KoRn2012

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[SOLVED] Can I just specify device name in cmdline of limine?

Hi,
I want to install the Limine bootloader. I am a blind user so I can't write the UUID in my limine.conf. Espeakup is verry unstable with long text strings, so I want to ask if I can specify my disk like this:
    cmdline: root=/dev/nvme0n1p3 rootflags=subvol=@...

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cryptearth

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I just specify device name in cmdline of limine?

from where you install a bootloader run

lsblk

and copy'n'paste it

KoRn2012

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I just specify device name in cmdline of limine?

The problem is i can not copy paste something from tty. With keyboard i am not able to highlight copy and paste.

cryptearth

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I just specify device name in cmdline of limine?

With keyboard i am not able to highlight copy and paste.

that depends on the used shell
but as you have to write the config your own anyway you can just oipe the output of lsblk into a file and use nano or vim (in both you can highlight and copy and paste with keyboard only) and modify it to a valid config for your bootloader

think outside of the box: your goal is to get so string from the out out of one command into a config for another - that can be performed by simply piping the output into a file and then modify that file

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I just specify device name in cmdline of limine?

You can use nvme0n1p3 as long as there's only one nvme in the system. The problem is that the device enumeration isn't deterministic, but the node will be there.
Alternatively

lsblk -o NAME,UUID | awk '/nvme0n1p3/ {print $2}'

will print the UUID of nvme0n1p3, can you redirect that into a file or clipboard buffer or directly use it to write the limine config?

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KoRn2012

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I just specify device name in cmdline of limine?

I tried what you suggested. The problem is espeakup is always crashing reading the uuid. I can't find anything in the Internet that solves this problem.

KoRn2012

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Re: [SOLVED] Can I just specify device name in cmdline of limine?

@5: thanks! tried it and it works.