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On 02.02.23 10:51, J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:42:40 AM CET Klaus Dittrich wrote: |
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>> Is there andbody using refind? Especially in Germany? |
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>> I have some questions about. |
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> If you have questions, feel free to ask on this list. |
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> I am sure I am not the only one using it. |
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> Joost |
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Joost, |
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my current system boots from bios(mbr) not uefi. |
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My knowlege of uefi is poor and uefi is still confusing me. |
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So it may be some of my questions will looking silly for you. |
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I now have prepared a gpt disk with two partitions, |
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one efi (fat32) and one for my system (ext4) with my existing |
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system already copied (dd'ed) on it. |
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This existing system was one partition only, no separate boot partition. |
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Now I want to know how the efi partition has to look after |
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I have installed refind. |
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refind can read ext4 so where have I to put the kernels? |
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Into /boot of the ext4 partition, where they already are, |
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or on /boot/efi/EFI/? which gets mounted after the kernel |
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has read /etc/fstab. |
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Can you post a tree of /boot with the esp-partition already mounted |
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of your refind booted system? |
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refind can only boot kernels compiled with CONFIG_EFI_STUB=y. |
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Can refind find and boot such kernels if the exist on a second disk? |
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I always copied my running (mbr/bios) system to a second disk, |
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so if something went wrong I switched the bootdisk in bios to |
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the backup disk and was up again a minute later. |
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I did this with a simple script that edited /etc/fstab and did |
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the copy by ddpt so only the differences since the last copy |
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were written.So saving a fine running system before changing |
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something critical on it was done in less than two minutes |
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using nvme-disks which can read very fast. |
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I will try to achieve the same with uefi, but uefi does not show |
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me devices to switch to like bios did. |
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How to brand the system- and the backup-disk so refind can distinguish |
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between them? |
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Will it be possible to have refind at an usb-stick and let it |
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boot one of the two identical systems from of two different disks? |
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The goal is to be prepared against disk failures and system failures |
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and to have always have a running system to boot from and to repair |
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the one that failed or to clone it to a new disk in case one of the |
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disks failed. |
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So the only failure able to set me offline will be a hardware failure |
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on motherboard or powersupply. |
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Regards Klaus |
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