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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon elementary

Switch to SystemD Boot

Open danirabbit opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Worth looking into SystemD boot again. I think we decided against it when distinst was being developed because it requires EFI? I guess we need to decide if non-EFI systems are now far too old to be supported

Benefits include:

  • no timeout by default! No more grub timeout issues
  • boot assessment: https://systemd.io/AUTOMATIC_BOOT_ASSESSMENT/

danirabbit avatar Jul 20 '24 16:07 danirabbit

It is worth noting that some folks on newer systems refuse to use EFI simply because it is yet another unneeded attack vector and was exploited in two difernt ways in the last year. ;)

poetfreak avatar Nov 24 '24 11:11 poetfreak

I'm not authorized to contribute any code here, but, one suggestion is building two ISOs for legacy BIOS and the newer standard EFI users. However, one downside I can foresee being an issue is CI/CD runtime fees if the elementary OS build system uses something like GitHub Actions.

sandwh1ched avatar Nov 30 '24 03:11 sandwh1ched

no timeout by default! No more grub timeout issues

This is possible in GRUB as well: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/HiddenGrubMenu

Conan-Kudo avatar Apr 07 '25 11:04 Conan-Kudo