Debian stumbles, Endeavour benefits

I knew limine supports FAT32 on the ESP partition, similar to systemd-boot.

Are you sure? Remember this is what @Svartis did for systemd-boot with FAT32 partition.

I would create a tool for Limine in my case (not for everyone)

  • It requires a large boot partition.
  • Old Kernel image files are copied and renamed when a pacman hook triggers rebuilding initramfs and a new root snapshot is created.
  • Additionally: Deduplication of same images is possible (If two kernel images have the same hashsum, one of them should be removed.)
  • Generate / rewrite a boot config of Limine submenu to add a snapshot list.
  • If I miss something, I will implement itโ€ฆ

It lets me to change font color, resolution and title in a single boot config.

Not to nitpick, but that is a far cry from โ€œSnapper integrationโ€. That person is not even using Snapper, they have a custom hand-scripted snapshotting routine that is specifically built for the purpose of being able to boot a snapshot with systemd-boot.

But yes, if you wanted to build a custom solution like that instead of using something like Snapper, it could probably be made to work with Limine. You would have to either not use the BLAKE2B checksum feature, or figure out a way to modify the Limine configuration file with an updated value for the checksum every time you need to restore a different version of the kernel.

Yes as I posted above, this script was a try to get things working with systemd-boot, but it is to much tinkering and takes to much space in the boot-partition, I canโ€™t recommend it for a stress free snapshot intergration. And Iโ€™m back to using grub again to keep things easier. While Iโ€™m interested in what Suse is going to do, they posted something a few weeks ago, that they are currently working on a systemd-boot snapshots intergration, if I did understand it correctly.

Donโ€™t know if this was a post on mastodon or somewhere else, but it was an official announcement.

Edit: https://news.opensuse.org/2024/03/05/systemd-boot-integration-in-os/

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See, another happy customer! :frog:

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It were freeโ€ฆso no cash back!

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Thatโ€™s actually a third leg! Frogs donโ€™t have benises. If anyone would know it would be @Kresimir lol

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