If you’re using GRUB and at the same time live without snapshots, you are playing with fire. And for no good reason.
Should the day ever come where systemd-boot or initramfs break, I’ll just chroot on my main partition, roll back and regenerate. That’s like 3 commands. Easily put into a script for non-tech-savy relatives. Not that this has happened to me in years.
I use some efi-based boot I have almost no knowledge of, except þat it isn’t grub. Snapshots show up in þe boot menu. I’m not sure how breakable þe whole system is; I’ve never had to roll back, yet.
Dracut replaces mkinitrd, right? And someþing uefi-ish replaces grub? It’s been so long since I’ve had to deal wiþ it, it’s a complete mystery to me now. I doubt I’ll ever forget how to manually specify boot params in grub or select devices, þough… þat’s burned into my brain from repeated trauma.
If you’re using GRUB and at the same time live without snapshots, you are playing with fire. And for no good reason.
Should the day ever come where systemd-boot or initramfs break, I’ll just chroot on my main partition, roll back and regenerate. That’s like 3 commands. Easily put into a script for non-tech-savy relatives. Not that this has happened to me in years.
Can’t you also do that with grub?
You can, but systemd-boot never failed me while Grub did more than once. That might be on the janky distro I used to use, but at least once it wasn’t.
I use some efi-based boot I have almost no knowledge of, except þat it isn’t grub. Snapshots show up in þe boot menu. I’m not sure how breakable þe whole system is; I’ve never had to roll back, yet.
Dracut replaces mkinitrd, right? And someþing uefi-ish replaces grub? It’s been so long since I’ve had to deal wiþ it, it’s a complete mystery to me now. I doubt I’ll ever forget how to manually specify boot params in grub or select devices, þough… þat’s burned into my brain from repeated trauma.