Questions tagged [systemd-boot]
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Why is my unsigned BOOTX64.EFI able to boot with Secure Boot enabled?
I am trying to understand Secure Boot and what it is doing on my system. I am using systemd-boot as my bootloader, not shim or GRUB, and Secure Boot is reported as enabled: running mokutil --sb-state ...
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Systemd-boot load another entry if main entry damaged
I use systemd-boot, I have two Linux systems, identical, two so that when updating the device, one is a backup
And I don't understand, I have two systems, both are visible in the menu, by default, ...
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I can no longer dual boot
My setup used to be a dual boot system with Pop OS and Windows 10, which are both on separate SSD drives. It worked fine and now I recently just changed from Pop OS to fedora. In the install procedure ...
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How do I enable UEFI secure boot for a linux build made with yocto?
I'm producing a yocto build, and want to enable UEFI Secure Boot on the intel machine I'm using. This is a pretty basic yocto build, using core-image-minimal and meta-intel. The artifacts it ...
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How can I manually install a Yocto image?
I'm having difficulties installing an image I've built with Yocto. In the past I've always used u-boot, MBR, and legacy boot. Installing Yocto meant creating boot and rootfs partitions, installing the ...
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systemd-boot partition not recognised as bootable
Installing Arch to an old ASUS G74Sx with a Samsung SSD as the main system drive and a Seagate for data
I've partitioned and installed system to /dev/sda for systemd-boot as so:
root@archiso ~ # ...
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How to pass extra options to OpenBSD's EFI boot loader with systemd-boot?
I have an extra systemd-boot entry for OpenBSD.
$ cat /boot/loader/entries/bsd.conf
title OpenBSD
efi /extra/bootx64.efi
It works and I manage to get into boot shell,
The problem is that by default ...
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How to know if computer uses GRUB or systemd-boot through SSH? (I have both /boot/grub and /boot/efi/EFI/systemd folders)
Without having access to the physical display, how can I know if my computer is being booted by grub or systemd-boot?
As I have writted on the tittle I have both /boot/grub/ and /boot/efi/EFI/systemd/ ...
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memtest86+ cannot boot via systemd-boot EFI
Recently has been released version 6 of Memtest86+ which finally introduce UEFI support.
Now, I use systemd-boot as boot manager, so I'd like to launch memtest86+ directly at boot.
I set up a ...
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Which Process Throws Error "StartImage failed: Load Error"?
I'm debugging a failed installation of systemd-boot on a multiboot Linux system (multiple instances of Ubuntu 20.04 & 22.04 in discrete partitions).
Sadly, the only consequence of
bootctl install
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I messed up systemd-boot by being foolish. No longer able to boot into PopOS or windows 10
I did the classic thing of being in a rush and not thinking, copying the following commands blindly from this other post.
sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64
sudo bootctl remove
sudo grub-install --...
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Triple boot with systemd-boot: How to boot Windows 10 and 11 directly without Windows boot manager?
I recently installed Windows 11 on my home PC in addition to Arch Linux but my wife isn't ready to switch until after her exams, so we keep Windows 10 around for now, leading to a very convoluted ...
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How to "properly" set boot options
What is the correct way to set boot options with systemd-boot?
I currently add them to the options line in the current.conf file at /boot/efi/loader/entries/, but this gets overwritten with any ...
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How can I "chain-load" grub from systemd-boot
So in the process of getting systemd-boot working on one partition, which is its own install, and having another install in parallel which is using grub, I'd like to make systemd-boot, boot to grub as ...
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Systemd service not working with Java and Python
I'm running my Discord Music Bot on a VPS, and to start the bot as the VPS does, I have a service called "bot.service" (located in /etc/systemd/system), which have the following:
[Unit]
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'bootctl status' showing options unavailable
Have (2) Linux Mint 20.1 systems - one regular hardware, one a VMware VM. I've installed/configured systemd-boot on both, but I'm seeing different available settings on each. So far, the only ...
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Arch boot WARNING: pci DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
I installed Arch on my new Dell 9300 following this guide: https://github.com/Spissable/arch-linux-installation/blob/master/README.md
Everything works fine, I can boot into my system. But there are ...
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Can multiple lvm2 volumes in a single volume group be bootable root volumes?
Or, perhap equivalently, can a bootable root volume be named other than "root"?
While installing a new version of a Linux IS I created an lvm2 logical volume named "ub20-root" ...
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arch linux systemd boot: missing /vmzlinuz-linux and /initramfs-linux.img
I am arch linux. One day it stopped showing in systemd boot menu. So I booted live arch via usb, mounted bootloader partition and ran bootctl list --esp-path="/mnt". This is output:
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Pop OS, How to enable boot messages to be printed on screen during boot up
In Ubuntu I know how can I enable post message from below link But currently I'm using Pop! OS is same branch/implementation from Ubuntu but I can not find way how can I enable post message at boot ...
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Start a systemd user service at system boot instead of at user login
Given a service definition at ~/.config/systemd/user/do-something.service for UID 1000, which is installed, enabled, and starts automatically at login, I would like the do-something.service to start ...
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What exactly happens with wanted and conflicted units while isolating to target
Following use case: unit A and unit B are wanted by target T. Unit A conflicts B. Unit B is started before unit A. System boots into target T.
If I understand the docs correctly, unit A will stop ...
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Show/hide systemd-boot menu
I use systemd-boot as boot manager.
I have the menu with many entries but 90% of time I choose entry #3.
Is there a way to hide the menu as default?
In this way when I want to boot #3, it skips ...
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How to match systemd-boot and init font
I'd like to have systemd-boot font matched with init process (systemd).
My system is Arch Linux.
I attach two screenshot;
one of systemd-boot,
one from init process.
Is there a way to match fonts?
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Uninstall grub from Debian (I'am using systemd-boot!)
The first thing I do with a new Linux box is to install systemd-boot. Grub, one would think this abomination was made of the hand of MS!
Okay, back to subject:
I just ran an upgrade on my new Debian ...