<Creepi>
Hello, I've been attempting to install CRUX on my Thinkpad X270. I've followed the Handbook on how to install grub for UEFI but I keep on landing in the GRUB shell after rebooting. I tried searching online but couldn't find much that helped. I've tried pointing GRUB to vmlinuz
<Creepi>
but it hangs after trying to boot
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<SiFuh>
I am anti grub, but if you can paste your config for grub online dpaste or something.
<SiFuh>
Your partition set up
<SiFuh>
And kernel location
<SiFuh>
And what you formated you filesystem as
<SiFuh>
Creepi: ^
<GazL>
I'm not a grub fan either. I use elilo. much simpler to configure.
<SiFuh>
I use syslinux. Some others here use efibootmgr. But there is always someone here that uses what ever you are using ;-)
<Creepi>
I'm going to reinstall with another bootloader
<SiFuh>
Why reinstall?
<Creepi>
Easier because I don't even have a working system yet
<SiFuh>
If you send us the info I requested we can help you
<Creepi>
GazL: is elilo included in the lilo package?
<SiFuh>
Then we can do what ever boot loader you want
<Creepi>
SiFuh: I somehow managed to break my GRUB install so I don't have it anymore
<SiFuh>
You don't need grub to boot your system if you have the bootable CRUX instalation medium
<Creepi>
Rebooted into the live CD, mounted, and /boot/grub/ was gone
<SiFuh>
/mnt/boot/grub ?
<GazL>
Creepi: Nope. not in the lilo pkg. I alredy had elilo installed in my EFI partition from my slackware install.
<GazL>
Unlike grub, It's just a standalone EFI executable that you drop in /boot/EFI, so it's very simple to install.
<SiFuh>
GazL: Same as me. I had syslinux from Slackware, that was used in Void and then in CRUX
<GazL>
btw, I got my initrd working. It's a bit heavier than I would like as the utils are linked against glibc, but I can experiement with klibc/musl/uClib-ng in future, but at least I'm no longer borrowing the initrd from slackware.
<SiFuh>
That's great
<SiFuh>
How big is it?
<GazL>
6MB compressed.
<GazL>
most of that is udev/cryptsetup and glibc.
<GazL>
... and the other libraries they depend on.
<GazL>
There's definately scope for shrinking it.
<SiFuh>
Mines 9.5
<SiFuh>
Guess mines bigger ;-)
<GazL>
... as the Bishop said to the actress! Oo'er! ;)
<SiFuh>
I am formatting and reinstalling soon, but I am making a gaming machine
<SiFuh>
I may look into making it smaller
<GazL>
What's that systemd unit under the screens on that image you posted? It's tiny!
<GazL>
s/systemd/system/ oops. ;)
<Romster>
/boot/vmlinuz-$version then it will work
<Romster>
$version being the kernel version
<Romster>
System.map-$version as well
<Romster>
then make the grub config as in the manual
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<jaeger>
If you're landing in the grub shell, that's at least an indication that grub was installed, it just can't find its config file
<jaeger>
Part of the way there, at least
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