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  • renzev@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlGRUB is confusing
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    5 days ago

    If GRUB is too confusing, just uninstall it? You said you have a UEFI system, you don’t need a bootloader. You can just put the vmlinuz and initramfs onto the ESP and boot into it directly. You can use efibootmgr to create the boot entry, something like this:

    efibootmgr \
    	--create \
    	--disk /dev/sda \
    	--part 1 \
    	--index 0 \
    	--label "Void linux" \
    	--loader /vmlinuz-6.6.52_1 \
    	--unicode " \
    		root=PARTLABEL=VOID_ROOT \
    		rw \
    		initrd=\\initramfs-6.6.52_1.img \
    		loglevel=4 \
    		net.ifnames=0 \
    		biosdevname=0 \
    		nowatchdog \
    		iomem=relaxed \
    		"
    
    • --disk /dev/sda: What disk is the esp on?
    • --part 1 What partition number (counting from 1) is the esp on?
    • --index 0 At what index in the boot menu should the boot entry appear?
    • --loader Path to the vmlinuz file. These are normally in /boot, you have to move it to the esp yourself
    • root=PARTLABEL=VOID_ROOT this is the linux root partiion. I’m using PARTLABEL to identify mine, but you can use pretty much anything that /etc/fstab supports
    • initrd=\\initramfs-6.6.52_1.img Again, you have to move the initramfs file from /boot into the esp. For some reason this uses backslashes, not forward slashes as path separator (double backslashes in this case are to prevent the shell from interpreting it as an escape sequence)
    • The rest of the arguments are just misc kernel parameters that I use

    Just search for EFISTUB for more info.




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  • My old housemates were the opposite lol. We tried saving every penny on heating costs. In the winter, we taped the windows over with cardboard for better insulation (they are old single-pane windows), and fashioned an automatic door closer from an elastic cord to keep the door into the living room shut (our “warm zone”). Instead of using gas heating, we mined ETH with our gaming PC’s (this was before ethereum went proof-of-stake). Between the three of us, the total energy output was close to 2kW, so totally viable for keeping the living room warm. Pretty sure we ended up earning money from heating the house lol.






  • Sorry, but in my book, actions speak louder than words. And the actions here are very clear: they made a useful service that benefited people. They paid for it out of their pocket and suffered major inconveniences in their personal lives to keep the service operational and to uphold their ideals of transparency. It’s a net positive contribution to the world, even if you account for the offensive/hurtful jokes they made along the way.

    You can spend hours talking about what people should or should not have done. Critiquing others from your high horse is easy, but it gets you nowhere. As another example, take Lemmy’s developers. You could go on for hours denouncing their tankie/authoritarian views, but it won’t change the fact that they created an anti-authoritarian and censorship-resistant platform that benefits many people.

    What I value personally is a consistent moral framework. What someone thinks on isolated issues or what kind of offensive humor they like is a lot less relevant to me. Do I disapprove of it? Yes. But do I condemn them for it? No. Because actions speak louder than words.