[artix-general] updates keep blowing away my desktop

Kian Kasad kian at kasad.com
Wed Nov 11 03:05:18 CET 2020


This really depends how your bootloader is set up. I still have my EFI
partition on /boot/efi. The only difference is if your bootloader
requires the kernel/initramfs to be on the EFI partition, they must be
manually copied (or done automatically using pacman hooks).

For example, I use EFISTUB to boot (so no bootloader), meaning I have to
manually move the images to /boot/efi when updating (although now I use
sbupdate to automate that).

It's been a while since I last used GRUB, but IIRC, you have to instruct
GRUB where the EFI partition is and where the kernels are when
installing GRUB, e.g:
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi --boot-directory=/boot

On 20/11/10 08:51PM, Ruben Safir via artix-general wrote:
> One thing I've noticed from the docs is that to GPT disks... and this
> NEEDS to be in the instructions... it USED to say to put the EFI
> partition under /boot/efi
> 
> It now insitist that won't work anymore (and maybe that is why it will
> not reboot?)  and the boot partition needs to be either moved to /boot
> or to /efi
> 
> This is a vital change.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 08:16:07PM -0500, Artix wrote:
> > I've been using artix now for YEARS since it nearly started and I've
> > gooten pretty good at pulling it apart, but the stabilty of late has
> > been non-existent.  With every upgrade now I have to hold my breath in
> > the hope it goes smoothly.  WHen the kernel is being updated, the entire
> > system goes toast.  For the last three times that I've updated the
> > kernel, it not only hangs the box, but it ends up with a zero size file
> > for vmlinux or whatever it is called this week.
> > 
> > What is going on?
> > 
> > And it just will not shutdown smoothly.  I can walk away after running
> > shutdown -r now and it is still hanging after haveg and then you pull
> > the plug and it won't reboot.
> > 
> > And then there is something going on with gnome or gtk that it is
> > hanging up firefox and thunderbird.  Thunderbird and fireforx stop
> > taking inputs from the mouse and wiggle it and it responds.  I don't
> > even know what that is.
> > 
> > I've wasted three hours tonight trying to put together my workstation.
> > 
> > I know you guys are volunteers and working hard, but this is completely
> > self destructive.  This system has been practically rock solid for
> > nearly 5 years, and now it is coming apart at the seems.
> > 
> > Ruben
> > 
> > -- 
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> > that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> > proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> > http://www.mrbrklyn.com 
> > 
> > DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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> > http://www.brooklyn-living.com 
> > 
> > Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, 
> > but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
> > 
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> So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
> that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
> proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
> http://www.mrbrklyn.com 
> 
> DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
> http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software
> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive 
> http://www.coinhangout.com - coins!
> http://www.brooklyn-living.com 
> 
> Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps, 
> but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
> 
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