![]() ![]() I mean strictly speaking, UEFI wants to find an ESP partition on the front of the drive to boot into full uefi mode. It's also supposed to allow custom boot entries to be added to it similar to grub. Create a data partition with the rest the space and put some iso's there. Just set up a fat32, boot flagged partition at the front of the thumb drive, install rEFInd there and do kinda like the above, as with it on a pc. Long have remained of Nix 2do list, shrugs.Ģnd: Fairly sure could use rEFInd in a/this multiboot usb project. Though haven't gotten around to working out the how 2's in either of these. Know grub2 can do this and should be able to boot/install iso's locally. Thusly perhaps meaning someone could install it (or just give it a try) to another partition on the system, w/o cd-dvd-usb etc. Since rEFInd scans the system everytime it boots for installed OS's and automagically adds them to the boot menu, was thinking may be able to setup a partition, install an iso there, poss uncompress the thing and that it (rEFInd) may pick up on it's initrd and initramfs. Though (unconfirmed) atm, aka: cbiz madcapped Nix theories. Random babble about more things rEFInd could be useful for. just decided to share and babble some about it. It's now become a personal thing and I want to do it by hand but they looked good and the Arch-wiki reference is pretty dang rich in good info and the gdisk link helped me learn to use the util. That's planned for later.Īm not planning on using one of those Github projs. Making definite progress, the usb is booting in full UEFI/GPT mode and atm, goes directly to a grub> rescue screen. Still haven't managed it but this got me onto the whole multiboot usb project. Go to make an install usb with the dd command anddddd hell no, over and over just won't work. Downloaded their latest release, chose the light variety, it's 1.1gbs. Second nix adventure: Been wanting to try Kali Linux for a long time. Use the arrow keys to go back/forth, press Enter to select and when one is highlighted and you have several kernels installed for that one/OS, press the F2 key and it lets you select whichever you want to boot. One thing I found and like, it installs icons on the boot menu screen. It's a pretty cool lil piece of software. Though after dorking with rEFInd and liking the thing thought I'd share and mention it at the Grill. Remembered rEFInd and went ahead and installed it, overwrote the temp LM install and everything was/is back to running happily. Finally just resorted to installing another LM OS and that recovered things enough to boot w/o having to chroot any of the OS's with live media. Screwed this up and left me with a system saying, "please install an operating system." Arghhhhhh, was thinking I'd borked the disks GPT table and for awhile sweating bullets. Should've been a simple matter of just setting up a new one and marking it with the boot flag, copying over the backups and called it good. Oops, that's where things got a lil hairy. ![]() Wham MSR gone, Wham winRE gone and after backing up the Nix related stuff on the systems ESP/efi partition WHAM the ESP partition too. So biz went into delete partition frenzy mode. Was also left with a MSR = microsoft reserved partition and a lil 400mb partition at the front of the drive, which is-was the WinRE = Win recovery environment that used to go to an OEM recovery partition I'd long since deleted. So that's what I did, formatted the win8.1 partition and reclaimed my diskspace for something I actually want on the system. Thought screw it time to get rid of their software. Window$ was sitting on 100gbs of diskspace, hardly ever use it and my feelings about Microsoft are well babbled about. Finally decided to get rid of window$ on the pc. I really like the thing, gives a good looking boot menu screen, plenty of themes someone can install etc etc. Pretty straight forward for whichever someone is using. Gives instructions for installing on several varieties of gnu/Nix. "gdisk /dev/sdb" of course without the quotes and it'll fire up asking for further commands.Īnd along the way, went ahead and installed rEFInd to be my UEFI/GPT bootmanager. Simple enough to get gdisk to work on it, as root just type. In the below example am using a usb which is showing up as sdb. whichever command to find your usb device. Edit: Though is kinda sparse in a few key ways too imo.
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