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  • zfsbootmenu

    ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption

    • I'm a huge fan of UKI - it's part of the underlying 'magic' of ZFSBootMenu (https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/). We ship a single EFI file that is a full Linux kernel, a semi-custom initramfs and an embedded command line. With that, we can fully support root-on-ZFS because we don't have to re-implement a complex filesystem in a bootloader ... like GRUB. Because we're not trying to re-implement ZFS (or any other modern/complex filesystem), we can ALWAYS be current. If a new version of ZFS is released, all we have to do is build a new EFI executable with that baked in to the embedded initramfs.

    There are serious concerns with SecureBoot and being able to unlock your own bootloader - but UEFI itself is a nice universal base to target in 2022.

  • kernel-postinst-d

    Discontinued Scripts for kernel post-installation routines

    • AFAIK Debian still doesnt have any integration available for successfully using systemd-boot. There's nothing to maintain the loader/entries files that systemd-boot expects!

    I've been copy pasting (well, its in my ansible now) /etc/kernel/postinst.d/ hooks from stackoverflow, which writes these files. Jank & I wish my os would actually support this wonderful easy to use tool. Systemd-boot is so much less obtuse, such a breath or fresh air, after years of grub (and many of uboot as well, but that's a different sector).

    I made the jump two years ago to a single partition, just the ESP partition. Theres a warning abiut not being able to set permissions properly but its worked fine & been so much more pleasant to operate. Very strongly recommend. It just worked for me on Debian, no real fiddling.

    https://github.com/filakhtov/kernel-postinst-d/blob/master/9...

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  • docs

    Hardware and software docs / wiki (by AsahiLinux)

    • M1 Macs have more in common with iPhones than with Intel Macs.

    See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/SW%3ABoot for example.

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