On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 15:06:03 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2016 08:21:36 Michael Mol wrote: > > If you're not frequently jumping to a non-default boot environment, it's > > fine. > > That's my problem: I do often want to start a minimal system. As I said > before not far from here, any time a substantial update is needed, > especially if it involves more than odd bits of KDE, I first emerge -B, then > boot into the minimal run level and emerge -K. That way I don't find myself > having to flip the BRS because of a half-dead desktop at the end of the > update. Or else I'll do the whole emerge in the minimal run level.
This is rather rare event for me running stable arch, but in any case, a fall back desktop would address this problem, yes? > Progress will keep on insisting on being made - hah! Maybe it's time I > reviewed my whole modus operandi and ditched most of the flexibility I've > developed over the years. I have built an UEFI system with no initramfs (I don't need it), or systemd (I don't want it), or any assisting boot manager. I have been happily using the EFI kernel stub and on the rare occasion I need to boot an alternative kernel I press F2 (or whatever it is) to get into BIOS and shift the boot order of the kernels I have stashed in /boot/EFI/BOOT/. If the need has arisen to use a different kernel before I (re)boot, then I can also change the kernels' boot order using efibootmgr from a terminal. This has been going on for the last two years or so without any complaints from the users, or myself. The only drawback is I can't boot sysrescuecd ISO straight off the boot menu without grub2 and friends. Again, fingers X, this is quite a rare occasion for this particular box. BTW, have you had a look at rEFInd? In the absence of Gummiboot you may fulfils your needs. -- Regards, Mick
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