[Tutorial] Convert to systemd-boot

General system
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Yes. There is nothing EOS-specific here. Even the package eos-systemd-boot isn’t actually EOS specific.

I have never tested it on Manjaro so I don’t know if it would work there but it probably would. Any other Arch-based distro should be fine unless they are doing something exotic.

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Unless they are doing something exotic? I’ll safely assume that Artix will not work with this. Thanks for the info.

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Clearly not. systemd-boot is part of systemd.

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Can I remove the installed binary? I converted to systemd-boot week or two ago, but didn’t uninstall the binary? Is it necessary to keep it?

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Which binary are you referring to?

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eos-systemd-boot which we manually compiled and installed during the systemd-boot installation

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You can remove the files from the directory where you ran makepkg but you shouldn’t uninstall the package.

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Okay, BTW thanks a lot for the amazing guide.

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7 posts were split to a new topic: A warm welcome to someone who isn’t new

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Rick, for some some bedtime reading, try this [Bash Manual](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.pdf).

Michael

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Why do I need to remove the keyfile? Cant it just stay in place? It doesnt hurt and if I want to go back to grub it is good to still have it in place.

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If you leave the keyfile in place the key used to decrypt your data will be in your initramfs which is now unencrypted in your efi partition. This is highly insecure. In fact, the system won’t even ask you for encryption password, it will just transparently use the key to unlock the volume.

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I am wondering if that is also true for initramfs created with dracut or if this is a mkinitcpio issue.

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Unless dracut is separately encrypting the initrd, your key would still be in an unencrypted location.

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Thank you. It worked perfectly on my pc :smiley:

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@freebird54, +1. I picked up on that early on but am holding that in reserve for the time being.

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I moved the Ubuntu support discussion to a PM as it really doesn’t belong on this forum.

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may dump question… but what was about ucode images? will they get updated automatically?

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Yes. If you use the manual method, they work the same as with grub.

If you use the kernel-install method, the get moved to the appropriate place each time kernel-install is run.

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just changed some installs from intel to AMD and see had the intel-ucode still used… because i do not reinstall or update kernels :wink:
only exchange the two packages…

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