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On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 09:50:44 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Right. After spending most of the last 10 days and some nights wrestling |
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> with the beast, I've got it fixed at last. |
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Except that I was wrong: I hadn't fixed it. I've just spent another two days |
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with an unbootable system finding a real fix. |
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When this all started, a couple of weeks ago or so, bootctl remove & install |
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threw a wobbler. It created two empty directories: |
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/boot/4eec63dc92f83de25e1e2e485d7f6536 |
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/boot/EFI/Linux |
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then wailed about not finding some data file and stopped. |
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Ever since then I've been trying to force the system back into the directory |
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structure that used to work, and getting stung over and again. |
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This morning I decided to bend with the wind. I let bootctl create those |
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directories again, then copied the latest kernel image into /boot/EFI/Linux/. |
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On running bootctl install again, everything worked as expected. All I had to |
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do was to adjust the boot order with efibootmgr. |
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I suspect I have a hardware problem, because the UEFI BIOS boot menu doesn't |
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always show an entry I've just added, and it sometimes inserts a blank entry |
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among the real ones. |
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For the record, here's the layout of /boot now: |
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# tree /boot |
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/boot |
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├── 4eec63dc92f83de25e1e2e485d7f6536 |
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├── config-4.19.72-gentoo |
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├── config-4.19.72-gentoo-rescue |
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├── config-4.19.72-gentoo-testsys |
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├── early_ucode.cpio |
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├── EFI |
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│ ├── BOOT |
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│ │ └── BOOTX64.EFI |
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│ ├── Linux |
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│ │ └── bzImage-4.19.72.efi |
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│ ├── systemd |
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│ │ └── systemd-bootx64.efi |
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│ └── TestSys |
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│ └── BOOT |
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│ └── bootX64.efi |
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├── intel-uc.img |
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├── loader |
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│ ├── entries |
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│ │ ├── 08-gentoo-4.19.66-rescue.conf |
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│ │ ├── 09-gentoo-4.19.66-rescue.nonet.conf |
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│ │ ├── 30-gentoo-4.19.72.conf |
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│ │ ├── 32-gentoo-4.19.72.nox.conf |
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│ │ ├── 34-gentoo-4.19.72.nonet.conf |
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│ │ ├── 40-gentoo-4.19.66.conf |
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│ │ ├── 42-gentoo-4.19.66.nox.conf |
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│ │ ├── 44-gentoo-4.19.66.nonet.conf |
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│ │ ├── 90-testsys-4.19.72.conf |
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│ │ └── 92-testsys-4.19.72.nonet.conf |
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│ ├── loader.conf |
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│ └── random-seed |
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├── System.map-4.19.72-gentoo |
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├── System.map-4.19.72-gentoo-rescue |
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├── System.map-4.19.72-gentoo-testsys |
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├── vmlinuz-4.19.72-gentoo |
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├── vmlinuz-4.19.72-gentoo-rescue |
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└── vmlinuz-4.19.72-gentoo-testsys |
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9 directories, 27 files |
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Here's hoping I won't have to go through that pain again for a while... |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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