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In that spirit, if you have an EFI system, you don't need GRUB
by bravetraveler 3y ago
In that spirit, if you have an EFI system, you don't need GRUB
- boomboomsubban 3y agoYou sort of do if you want to boot kernels on btrfs. Refind is an option, but not most of the other EFI bootloaders.
- bravetraveler 3y agoAh, good point - I neglected the BTRFS involvement/need to find kernels... that one would ideally include with these snapshots, of course
- account42 3y agoYou put the kernel (built with efistub) directly onto the EFI partition - no boot loaded needed at all.
- Pesthuf 3y agoI think there's still value in a bootloader. You can easily load an old kernel with an old initramfs if you messed up somehow, or adjust kernel parameters. The boot UI for most modern UEFI-Firmwares is really primitive and they usually don't come with EFI shells.
- dizhn 3y agoCan you point to read-only snapshots that way?
- boomboomsubban 3y agoWhich kind of ruins bootable snapshots, as your kernel isn't part of them. You could have a massive esp with ~10 unified kernels each pointing at a different snapshot, with some kind of management script to handle them, but using GRUB seems easier than that.