the ostree portion of grub does a few things that is not standard and is incompatible with other boo

the ostree portion of grub does a few things that is not standard and is incompatible with other bootloaders (ex: systemd-boot) and will break
not sure if the ostree part of grub is upstreamed so that it is available in other distros as i have not checked that. but if it is not upstreamed yet then a grub update on a non ostree system can break your boot entry for your ostree system

HikariKnightOP•2/25/24, 4:09 PM

youre free to try but dont be surprised if it blows up in your face

antheas•2/25/24, 4:09 PM

you can always do multiple efi partitions

HHikariKnight the ostree portion of grub does a few things that is not standard and is incompa...

Zelda•2/25/24, 4:09 PM

ohhh gotcha! makes a ton of sense...

antheas•2/25/24, 4:09 PM

thats true its very easy for the boot entry to break

HHikariKnight youre free to try but dont be surprised if it blows up in your face 😅

EmKUltra64•2/25/24, 4:10 PM

this should have been what I put at the end of my suggestions lol

Aantheas you can always do multiple efi partitions

HikariKnightOP•2/25/24, 4:10 PM

this is what i do, my work laptop has 2 efi partitions, 1 for ostree grub and 1 for windows (windows is there for compatibility for some onsite work for other companies than the main one i work at)

ChaiQi•2/25/24, 4:10 PM

For a while I had a triple boot arrangement with Windows and PopOS on the same drive and EFI partition, then a different arrangement with Windows, two copies of Bazzite, and two EFI partitions

ChaiQi•2/25/24, 4:10 PM

Both worked, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend either

HHikariKnight this is what i do, my work laptop has 2 efi partitions, 1 for ostree grub and 1 ...

Zelda•2/25/24, 4:54 PM

huh, that makes sense! is there a guide somewhere?

ZZelda huh, that makes sense! is there a guide somewhere?

HikariKnightOP•2/25/24, 4:55 PM

if one exists it should be in https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs

Docs - Universal Blue

Planting the flag for the next generation Linux desktop

KKyle Gospo Removed temporarily on gnome, causes a white screen

Varian-Killbot•2/25/24, 4:58 PM

Apologies for replying to a post from months ago, but if fix-screenshare has been removed for the gnome release (it does not function still as of the 25th of February), does that mean the fix it is providing does not function on Gnome at all?

Varian-Killbot•2/25/24, 4:59 PM

If so, I wish that could have been better communicated, as it's a rather critical omission that people should be aware of before installing the Gnome version of Bazzite.

Varian-Killbot•2/25/24, 5:01 PM

It is not warned in the documentation anywhere that the command doesn't function in Gnome. I think it's rather unfair to the end user to have a particular command not function without explanation, forcing them to track down a single discord post from months ago to be aware of this.

Varian-Killbot•2/25/24, 5:02 PM

If my tone conveys any rudeness, I apologize. I am frustrated.

Aantheas you can always do multiple efi partitions

©TriMoon™•2/25/24, 5:20 PM

The UEFI-BIOS only recognizes the first ESP on a drive, but you can have more than one drive with each their own ESP...

antheas•2/25/24, 5:21 PM

dunno about that, probably varies per manufacturer

antheas•2/25/24, 5:21 PM

i think for the legion go doing multiple efi partitions works

Aantheas dunno about that, probably varies per manufacturer

©TriMoon™•2/25/24, 5:21 PM

Thats what i understood from the UEFI specs...

©©TriMoon™The UEFI-BIOS only recognizes the __first__ ESP on a drive, but you __can have__...

HikariKnightOP•2/25/24, 5:22 PM

rather the spec specifies it should only aknowledge the first ESP
most uefi implementations dont follow that spec

©TriMoon™•2/25/24, 5:22 PM

if they don't follow specs, nothing to be said ofcourse

antheas•2/25/24, 5:22 PM

all i know is that I have 1 partition, the legion go forgets my efi entries exist when I update the bios

antheas•2/25/24, 5:22 PM

but everyone that did 2 is ok

Aantheas all i know is that I have 1 partition, the legion go forgets my efi entries exis...

©TriMoon™•2/25/24, 5:23 PM

When you update your BIOS ofcourse all UEFI-VARS in the CMOS also get deleted...thats logical...

antheas•2/25/24, 5:23 PM

when you have a potato bios that happens

antheas•2/25/24, 5:24 PM

proper bios also have a built in secure boot key tool

antheas•2/25/24, 5:24 PM

so nice

antheas•2/25/24, 5:24 PM

and bios update from usb drive

©TriMoon™•2/25/24, 5:25 PM

those keys are totally different topic...

antheas•2/25/24, 5:26 PM

the spec lists the minimum

©TriMoon™•2/25/24, 5:26 PM

Anyhow....stay safe and use 1 ESP per drive...

antheas•2/25/24, 5:27 PM

yeah well heres the thing: the legion go only has one drive

antheas•2/25/24, 5:27 PM

and forgets the efi entries

antheas•2/25/24, 5:27 PM

so you need 2 efi partitions

then try dual booting on your own risk...as it is not supported...like they say...

antheas•2/25/24, 5:28 PM

also, unlike a proper bios it doesnt let you pick an efi image to boot from

antheas•2/25/24, 5:28 PM

so you have to do the live cd game

@antheas forgetting efi entries....is what in your definition?
The boot menu entries you see or the files inside the ESP?

antheas•2/25/24, 5:28 PM

sure so heres the thing about the legion go

antheas•2/25/24, 5:29 PM

it only automatically picks up the xboot64 entry on an efi partition

antheas•2/25/24, 5:29 PM

you have to add the others with efibootmgr

antheas•2/25/24, 5:29 PM

and it forgets them every bios update

antheas•2/25/24, 5:29 PM

so you can only have 1 image per efi partition

Thats most likely because your device doesnt use secureboot

antheas•2/25/24, 5:29 PM

i use secure boot

antheas•2/25/24, 5:29 PM

and measured boot

antheas•2/25/24, 5:29 PM

and everything boot

then your bios is bugged lmao

antheas•2/25/24, 5:30 PM

otherwise you have to boot up a live cd and use efibootmgr

antheas•2/25/24, 5:30 PM

manually

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