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Hi
Im looking for some clarification really on some changes I'd like to make to my current configuration with the rEFInd boot manager. This is because I'm using btrfs and I would like to include my kernels and initramfs.img files in my snapshots.
My searching led me to this page. Of course I would need to adopt it for use with rEFInd and, I would not use encryption.
I currently have a FAT32 EFI partition /dev/nvme0n1p1 mounted to /boot. When I first installed rEFInd it found my kernels and created a refind_linux.conf file in /boot with my kernels
"Boot with standard options" "root=PARTUUID=6df48d55-daa4-4da7-b838-730bb7ccbb6e rw rootflags=subvol=root add_efi_memmap initrd=intel-ucode.img initrd=initramfs-%v.img quiet loglevel=3"
"Boot using fallback initramfs" "root=PARTUUID=6df48d55-daa4-4da7-b838-730bb7ccbb6e rw rootflags=subvol=root add_efi_memmap initrd=intel-ucode.img initrd=initramfs-%v-fallback.img quiet loglevel=3"
"Boot to terminal" "root=PARTUUID=6df48d55-daa4-4da7-b838-730bb7ccbb6e rw add_efi_memmap initrd=intel-ucode.img initrd=initramfs-%v.img systemd.unit=multi-user.target"So, the steps to achieve this as I understand them, and as described in the link I provided, would be:
1 - Edit /etc/fstab to change the mount point for ESP to /efi
2 - then unmount /boot, create /efi and mount it
3 - then reinstall the kernel packages and intel-ucode package with pacman so they are in /boot
4 - run sudo mkinitcpio -P to create new initramfs.img in /boot
At this point I think I would need to regenerate refind_linux.conf file in /boot (or copy the current one from /efi to /boot and edit it) to get the right paths for the initrd entries, I think mkrlconf script as root can do this. Getting the initrd= paths correct is one of the things I wanted to check.
As I would now mount my ESP to /efi the initrd= paths will need to change. The Arch wiki says the paths must be relative to the root of the file system where the kernels reside. So my new refind_linux.conf file would look like this?:
"Boot with standard options" "root=PARTUUID=6df48d55-daa4-4da7-b838-730bb7ccbb6e rw rootflags=subvol=root add_efi_memmap initrd=boot\intel-ucode.img initrd=boot\initramfs-%v.img quiet loglevel=3"
"Boot using fallback initramfs" "root=PARTUUID=6df48d55-daa4-4da7-b838-730bb7ccbb6e rw rootflags=subvol=root add_efi_memmap initrd=boot\intel-ucode.img initrd=boot\initramfs-%v-fallback.img quiet loglevel=3"
"Boot to terminal" "root=PARTUUID=6df48d55-daa4-4da7-b838-730bb7ccbb6e rw add_efi_memmap initrd=boot\intel-ucode.img initrd=boot\initramfs-%v.img systemd.unit=multi-user.target"The other thing I wondered about is about whether or not the UEFI boot manager entry would need to be updated. So currently, efibootmgr command shows:
BootCurrent: 0000
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,0002,0003,0004
Boot0000* rEFInd Boot Manager HD(1,GPT,7f9164ff-7ef8-4003-b535-eb1c15a7daf8,0x800,0x100000)/File(\EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi)The PARTUUID is the same of course, but the file path might need to be corrected to reflect my new changes? I'm unclear about this actually. I know 'how' to change/update it, just not sure if I'd need to.
I believe rEFInd is fine with btrfs file system if a) the correct drivers are made available in esp/EFI/refind/drivers_x64 and b) the partition is unencrypted which mine is not. I have copied the driver for btrfs from /usr/share/refind/drivers_x64/ to where it needs to be already. The table of comparison for bootloaders on this wiki page I read said that.
I might have just over complicated this in my head but rather than just go ahead and change things and end up with an unbootable system, I wondered if anyone here might be able to confirm if the steps above would be the correct way to do it.
best wishes, jimmy
Last edited by jimmyg (2022-07-16 00:23:58)
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