03:19 <remiliascarlet> SiFuh: "Have you seen Ricky Gervais Armageddon (2023)?" No.

13:10 <SiFuh> remiliascarlet: How was your fast?

13:39 <remiliascarlet> SiFuh: It was easy as long as I have enough water bottles.

13:53 <SiFuh> Do a vodka fast ;-)

15:07 <lavaball> how long did you go?

16:05 <remiliascarlet> 1 day.

16:30 <lavaball> a DAY!

16:30 <lavaball> i was expecting a week.

16:30 <lavaball> a day!

16:31 <lavaball> what is this? rich man's delight.

16:31 <lavaball> i do a day every day, since i only eat once per day.

16:31 <lavaball> i do 3 days every months except in winter.

16:31 <lavaball> my best was 9 days though.

16:31 <lavaball> 6 days with full work out including travel to the gym, since i don't have car.

16:32 <lavaball> oh, and when i say 3 days means i eat on thursday aftenoon, next time monday at noon.

17:08 <SiFuh> I eat once per day as well and very little

21:05 <remiliascarlet> I wasted an entire night fixing a broken system, only to conclude that I no longer dislike UEFI.

21:05 <remiliascarlet> I now fucking hate UEFI!

21:06 <SiFuh> Heh

22:19 <remiliascarlet> Installed in legacy boot mode this time, and now it says "Failed to load ldlinux.c32". After so many tries, I made damn sure to follow CRUX's handbook.

22:20 <SiFuh> You using syslinux?

22:22 <SiFuh> It was loosely based on my documentation

22:22 <SiFuh> farkuhar: did all the writing

22:22 <SiFuh> https://gitlab.com/SiFuh/Documentation/-/blob/master/SYSLINUX-Cheat_Sheet.pdf?ref_type=heads

22:25 <SiFuh> This is my cheat sheet, but you must take note I do not use the retarded /boot/efi/ mount point that ends up being /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT . I use /boot for my mount point so I end up with /boot/EFI/BOOT

22:26 <SiFuh> So adjust accordingly

23:06 <remiliascarlet> Yes, I use SYSLINUX.

23:06 <SiFuh> In Soviet Russia, SYSLINUX uses you

23:09 <remiliascarlet> I did exactly as you did in your cheat sheet, except that instead of using /boot/EFI/BOOT, I just use /boot.

23:10 <remiliascarlet> It worked on my laptop, so I expected it to work on my gaming PC as well.

23:13 <SiFuh> remiliascarlet: I also did that on my original documentation

23:13 <SiFuh> https://gitlab.com/SiFuh/Documentation/-/blob/master/CRUX-Syslinux.pdf?ref_type=heads

23:16 <remiliascarlet> mkdir -p /boot/syslinux | cd /boot/syslinux | cp /usr/share/syslinux/ldlinux.c32 | extlinux --install /boot/syslinux | (syslinux.cfg config editing) | dd bs=440 count=1 conv=notrunc if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda

23:16 <remiliascarlet> This is the sequence of commands I used.

23:21 <SiFuh> Is your boot partition set with flag A (bootable)?

23:22 <remiliascarlet> Yes.

23:25 <remiliascarlet> Also, my earlier struggles with UEFI made me try out Gentoo. The USE flags stuff was so frustrating that I gave up on Gentoo, and got more desperate at getting CRUX to work.

23:26 <remiliascarlet> And it was in UEFI mode, so that too failed to install just like CRUX on UEFI did.

23:27 <SiFuh> It's a frequency issue

23:28 <SiFuh> Your disk is GPT or MBR?

23:29 <remiliascarlet> MBR.

23:30 <SiFuh> And ldlinux.c32 is in the exact same folder that syslinux.cfg is in right?

23:31 <remiliascarlet> Yes.

23:31 <SiFuh> And your boot partition was actually mounted when doing all that fancy stuff above?

23:32 <remiliascarlet> If it wasn't, none of these would have worked in the first place.

23:32 <SiFuh> Yeah it would

23:33 <SiFuh> I can make a /boot/syslinux and run everything above without actually mounting the /boot partition

23:34 <remiliascarlet> My root partition is the bootable one.

23:34 <SiFuh> Yuck

23:34 <remiliascarlet> The only other partition I have is the swap.

23:34 <SiFuh> What FS is your / partition?

23:35 <remiliascarlet> ext4

23:35 <SiFuh> Well, I can't see any mistakes then.

23:35 <remiliascarlet> I have this exact same setup on my laptop, and it works there.

23:36 <remiliascarlet> Just in case, I downloaded the new kernel which I'm compiling, and then I'll execute these commands again.

23:37 <SiFuh> The benefits of having a separate /boot partition is you can leave it untouched and install many distros around it and never need to worry so much.

23:37 <remiliascarlet> Because when I first tried to install CRUX, I backed up the whole /usr/src folder to a different SSD, so in the case of failure I wouldn't need to re-compile the kernel again.

23:37 <SiFuh> Just an idea though. Isn't there a limit to what BIOS can access on a disk? Like 1024mb or something?

23:38 <remiliascarlet> Well, I don't really need that. I keep my gaming PC turned on 24/7 anyway, so I don't really dual boot.

23:38 <SiFuh> I wasn't talking dual boot

23:38 <remiliascarlet> BIOS can access up to 2 TiB during boot time as far as I understood.

23:39 <SiFuh> If you decided to install Gentoo, you leave the boot partition alone. SYSLINUX is already setup. You can then change to CRUX and SYSLINUX is already setup. You don't even need the SYSLINUX port installed anymore.

23:40 <remiliascarlet> If it were 1024 Mb, we would have hit that limit back in the 1970s already.

23:41 <SiFuh> https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html

23:41 <remiliascarlet> And every single computer would be rendered unbootable by the late 1980s.

23:43 <SiFuh> Why?

23:43 <SiFuh> As long as the bootable stuff is at the beginning of the drive it can be a 2TiB drive.

23:44 <SiFuh> Since Linux failed, I think you should install OpenBSD