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Fedora annoyed me and I said screw it, I'm going back to arch. But I cant remember how I got it to work the last time I set it up. There's a couple weird issues and changes since last I set this up that I think are contributing to this.

1 - /boot/efi is no longer considered an appropriate mount point. just create a EFI partition and mount it /efi and let the OS put /boot inside the root partition if it needs it., then throw a UKI on /boot/efi/EFI/Linux. Problem? bootctl insists I am either in a container or not in EFI mode. I have not been successful in convincing it otherwise.

2 - bcachefs boot time mounting is in a weird place right now. supposedly I can call a piece of the array by UUID and it will just mount, but I used to use the old_blk_id method in fstab and the modern equivalent to that appears to be grabbing the UUID off bcachefs fs usage, which will show the UUID that matches all members of the array under blkid, which is noted as being broken at the moment. Why not use btrfs? well I tried it and found it annoyingly inflexible and finally gave up and am trying to go back to what worked on my last home server.

3 - I'm attempting to use UKI this time to make it easier to transition into using secure boot when I feel like doing that later on, and its possible that UKI, systemd-boot, bcachefs, and the /efi mountpoint are not a great mix.

help? :(

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[–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

While you're at it, install dracut, faster than mkincipio

[–] gsx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Or use booster, it's imo even faster and easier to configure, then mkinitcpio and dracut.