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hippieben

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Registered: 2013-10-27

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did I just find something to loathe in systemd as a bootloader?

Not sure what happened, ran an update and the non-ARCH kernel I'm using was renamed and would no longer boot, but I was totally hosed.  Editing the "config" at the bootloader (EFI via systemd) only seems to allow changing "options" rather than the actual boot config as you can with grub.  Since I didn't have any live media with me, I had a brick all day at work.  Is systemd really that crippled as a bootloader or am I missing something?

jasonwryan

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Re: did I just find something to loathe in systemd as a bootloader?

What was updated? Are you referring to editing the kernel line? Probably.

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: did I just find something to loathe in systemd as a bootloader?

systemd-boot is not a bootloader. It's a simple menu that lets you run EFI applications, so yes, it very simplistic compared to GRUB.

You're talking about when you hit "e" at the systemd-boot menu?

hippieben

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Registered: 2013-10-27

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Re: did I just find something to loathe in systemd as a bootloader?

systemd-boot is not a bootloader. It's a simple menu that lets you run EFI applications, so yes, it very simplistic compared to GRUB.

You're talking about when you hit "e" at the systemd-boot menu?

Yeah.  I would think you'd be able to edit the whole .conf but it seems to only be usable for passing options.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: did I just find something to loathe in systemd as a bootloader?

If you download the UEFI Shell and copy it to $ESP/shellx64.efi then systemd-boot will autogenerate a menu entry for it and you can then use `bcfg` to create custom NVRAM entries.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Un … UEFI_Shell

EDIT: perhaps a less vitriolic thread title would be more productive?

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-11-29 19:46:00)

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