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> I was surprised at how nice the installer has gotten. It’s pretty good, but adding two ESP devices gives the impression you’re getting boot redundancy and yo
by donmcronald 3y ago
> I was surprised at how nice the installer has gotten.
It’s pretty good, but adding two ESP devices gives the impression you’re getting boot redundancy and you’re not. Only one of them will end up with GRUB. Then, once you fix that, only the primary device will have an entry in fstab and SystemD will have a nervous breakdown if you try to boot off the secondary with the primary missing. Good luck supplying the root password for emergency mode because you probably don’t have one.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> It’s pretty good, but adding two ESP devices gives the impression you’re getting boot redundancy and you’re not. Only one of them will end up with GRUB. Then, once you fix that, only the primary device will have an entry in fstab and SystemD will have a nervous breakdown if you try to boot off the secondary with the primary missing. How do you do that? The only way I know of is to use mdadm to RAID1 the partitions[0], but I wouldn't expect that to break the way you've described. [0] This is also a bit fiddly; IME you have to pick a specific configuration so the firmware will read the result.