How to migrate to grub?

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hey there guys,
I know there is allready a manual how to do it, but even if im not new to linux I’m new to endaevoros and installing my own bootloader. First of all, why I want to migrate from systemmd-boot to grub. I tried installing kernel-modules (e.g. binder) and they don’t run, I just don’t get them to load. I’ve read that this should be added just to the grub manually and as I’m more familiar with it, I thoguth why not change it back.

So is there anyone having a detailed tutorial how to do it?
Or could i just reinstall endeavourOs over my actual system without overwriting /home? As far is I understand, I just need to reinstall the packages over yay or pacman, but my steam library wouldn’t be downloaded again right?

Hopefully someone could help me.

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Are you just trying add some kernel options?

It is as simple as editing /etc/kernel/cmdline and then running sudo reinstall-kernels.

Migrating to grub is going to much more work than that.

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Hey,
I tried to install binder-dkms, but since then. Every Update I’ll get an error cause it can’t change the grub bootloader. I wanted to add this, because it should improve my performance in waydroid. If there is a easier way, I’m glad to hear this, but this is beyond my expertise. Before I mainly used Ubuntu or Manjaro with grub where these things ‘just run’. With these packages.

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Can you share the exact error you are receiving?

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dracut[I]: *** Stripping files ***
dracut[I]: *** Stripping files done ***
dracut[I]: *** Creating image file '/efi/98627e2e333c413cae770e1659e0a507/6.12.4-zen1-1-zen/initrd' ***
dracut[I]: *** Creating initramfs image file '/efi/98627e2e333c413cae770e1659e0a507/6.12.4-zen1-1-zen/initrd' done ***
Fehler: konnte nicht in Weiterleitung schreiben (Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe))
(13/18) Reloading system bus configuration...
(14/18) Check if user should be informed about rebooting after certain system package upgrades.
(15/18) Updating icon theme caches...
(16/18) Checking which packages need to be rebuilt
(17/18) Updating systemd-boot
Copied "/usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/systemd-bootx64.efi" to "/efi/EFI/systemd/systemd-bootx64.efi".
Copied "/usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/systemd-bootx64.efi" to "/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI".
Skipping "/efi/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI", same boot loader version in place already.
Fehler: Befehl konnte nicht korrekt ausgeführt werden

Sorry for some german parts in there.

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What part of that are you worried about? That broken pipe message is just a nuisance message and can be ignored.

The systemd-boot message at the end is because systemd-boot returns failure when it detects that no changes are needed. It is not a problem.

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ahhh ok, thought it got problems while updating the kernel in the boot. If it’s fine, its much better than :smiley:

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