Switching bootloaders about easy-arch

[classy-giraffe]

If anybody is interested, i got rEFInd work perfectly.

[classy-giraffe]

yeah, I'll try to integrate both in the script. just gotta figure out a hassle-free way to do that. 😆

[classy-giraffe]

kinda unrelated to this, i wanna put all the contributors (both through donations, pushing code, commenting etc..) in a section since this project right here exists thank to you all here as well 👑

[classy-giraffe]

As I've been suggested, I created an experimental branch. The new script is located here and it works quite well. I'll add support for booting from a btrfs volume and secure boot soon.

[Cyfraka]

I agree to change GRUB, so let me know when testing on hardware or VM is needed.

[classy-giraffe]

The only viable alternative for now is rEFInd as it's the only bootloader (apart from GRUB) which supports booting into btrfs snapshots.

[mariolopjr]

@classy-giraffe would totally like other bootloaders, rEFInd would be perf! TBH, getting systemd-boot to work with LUKS has been ... not ideal and doesn't seem to support snapshots!

@classy-giraffe
rEFInd is a great little bootloader, although I find it a bit slow when it has to deal with hunting through many devices for things to chain.

Could this perhaps be a selectable option between it and GRUB? Although I totally sympathise with the GRUB hate.

[iSparsh]

I agree with @roseweeks. There should be an option to select which bootloader the user wants to use.

[pm4rcin]

@classy-giraffe would totally like other bootloaders, rEFInd would be perf! TBH, getting systemd-boot to work with LUKS has been ... not ideal and doesn't seem to support snapshots!

Getting systemd-boot to work with LUKS is really easy if you RTFM and spend a few hours to understand :D (like me). The only thing I needed to do was add:

options rd.luks.uuid=UUID rootflags=subvol=@

Of course UUID is easy to extract by blkid. It's the UUID of /dev/mapper/ourname
I think the https://systemd.io/DISCOVERABLE_PARTITIONS/ has found the root automatically after setting the partition as "Linux root (x86-64)" with cfdisk which has UUID: 4f68bce3-e8cd-4db1-96e7-fbcaf984b709.

PS. Regarding the initramfs I've used booster and it works just fine without any configuration.
PS. 2 I thought of putting systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved on my laptop to replace networkmanager but... If you want to use more things than just wired ethernet. For example to use wifi with iwd or even qemu VMs I think NetworkManager is better suited for desktop. In my opinion systemd-networkd would be great for server which has static config. Or at least if there was some dbus interface which is non existing on networkd. So for now use networkmanager + iwd.
PS. 3 Your config for zram works.
PS. 4 doas works great as sudo replecement but make sure to read the whole page (it's not long) because many programs expect sudo to be present so we need to make symlink.
PS. 5 pipewire and pipewire-pulse they just work as expected.
PS. 6 I've configured snapper with the help of your script but haven't had time to test snapshots with systemd-boot and the script that I linked in another post.
PS. Sorry for off-topic but just wanted to let you know to think twice if you plan to try implementing things like that here and just wanted to provide feedback.

[classy-giraffe]

Alright I promised support for booting from snapshots and here we are.