openSUSE: systemd-boot Integration (experimental)

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Just came across this, found it very interesting and thought I’d share with the community.

I’ve been wanting to try openSUSE for quite some time (will probably do once Plasma 6 lands on Tumbleweed) and today’s write-up found me pleasantly surprised.

I normally prefer systemd-boot over GRUB setups, but with openSUSE having such good reputation of its automatic (bootable) snapshoting capabilities I thought I’d have to go wtih GRUB.

Turns out maybe I won’t need to, since the work on sdbootutil looks promising (its early though so I’ll try to not get my hopes too high).

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Yes, interesting, I read it on Linuxiac too

It will be interesting if there is a entry at boot for booting from a snapshot, that at the moment is nont possible on Endeavous with systemd-boot (and all others distros with systemd-boot).
If OpenSuse systemd-bott is able to boot from snapshot so others distros can do the same and so everyone can use systemd-boot instead of grub.
I’m using grub now just because i need a way to boot from a snapshot in case of disaster.

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Well this is interesting. I would switch to this if it eventually was able to be implemented on EOS. Maybe someday. :thinking:

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I’m not too familiar with how the openSUSE ecosystem works when it comes to tool development and upstreaming, but I would hope that they developed the stated tools in a way that they could eventually be ported to other distros.

So I too hope we see a universal simple solution to systemd-boot-able snapshots, applicable to EOS, Arch, Fedora, etc. Would be fantastic!

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