• Replace Grub with rEFInd [WAS Possibly broken Grub or initrd after upda

    From Richard Rosner@21:1/5 to Richard Rosner on Wed Jan 3 20:30:01 2024
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    So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond repair, I
    today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation succeeded
    without any trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd just asks me if
    I want to boot with fwupd or with the still very broken Grub. Am I
    missing something? Is rEFInd really just something to select between
    different OSs (and not just different distributions like Grub can very
    well do) and then gives the rest over to their bootloaders or am I
    missing something so rEFInd will take over all of Grubs jobs?

    On 01.01.24 21:45, Richard Rosner wrote:


    On 01.01.24 21:20, Richard Rosner wrote:

    On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote:
    On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote:
    On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote:
    I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways and it's
    uneccessarily difficult to find some sort of guide how to even do
    this, it might as well be a documentation for users having such
    troubles in the future.

    Also, besides the way that I have no clue how it would have to look
    like to set up a paragraph in the grub.cfg, I simply don't see
    anything wrong with it anyways. So I can't even look at the grub
    settings files grub.cfg is being generated from to check where the
    error lies.
    You append the commands that you used to boot manually with into
    /etc/grub.d/40_custom, observing the comments there, and also into
    grub.cfg itself at the appropriate place (near the bottom). The
    former is so that Grub includes it in any new grub.cfg that you
    create.
    Good to know.
    Edit:, never mind. Tried that, it still booted straight to the UEFI
    BIOS menu after entering my password. At this point, I'm seriously considering slapping rEFInd on it and pray that it picks up on
    everything automatically and fix the situation. But so should Grub
    have, besides the fact that I can't even be entirely sure Grub is to
    blame and not something else.
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    <p>So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond
    repair, I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. Installation
    succeeded without any trouble. But when I start my system, rEFInd
    just asks me if I want to boot with fwupd or with the still very
    broken Grub. Am I missing something? Is rEFInd really just
    something to select between different OSs (and not just different
    distributions like Grub can very well do) and then gives the rest
    over to their bootloaders or am I missing something so rEFInd will
    take over all of Grubs jobs?<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01.01.24 21:45, Richard Rosner
    wrote:<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01.01.24 21:20, Richard Rosner
    wrote:<br>
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    cite="mid:8b8ce953-3733-4ec7-ac3d-3b688d1ab633@rosner-online.de">
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    On 01.01.24 20:30, David Wright wrote: <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100),
    Richard Rosner wrote: <br>
    <blockquote type="cite">On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote:
    <br>
    I can boot by hand, but since this is all archived anyways
    and it's <br>
    uneccessarily difficult to find some sort of guide how to
    even do <br>
    this, it might as well be a documentation for users having
    such <br>
    troubles in the future. <br>
    <br>
    Also, besides the way that I have no clue how it would have
    to look <br>
    like to set up a paragraph in the grub.cfg, I simply don't
    see <br>
    anything wrong with it anyways. So I can't even look at the
    grub <br>
    settings files grub.cfg is being generated from to check
    where the <br>
    error lies. <br>
    </blockquote>
    You append the commands that you used to boot manually with
    into <br>
    /etc/grub.d/40_custom, observing the comments there, and also
    into <br>
    grub.cfg itself at the appropriate place (near the bottom).
    The <br>
    former is so that Grub includes it in any new grub.cfg that
    you <br>
    create. <br>
    </blockquote>
    Good to know. <br>
    </blockquote>
    Edit:, never mind. Tried that, it still booted straight to the
    UEFI BIOS menu after entering my password. At this point, I'm
    seriously considering slapping rEFInd on it and pray that it picks
    up on everything automatically and fix the situation. But so
    should Grub have, besides the fact that I can't even be entirely
    sure Grub is to blame and not something else.<br>
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