Hab mir ein gebrauchtes Dell-Notebook von 2017 zugelegt, um damit zu "spielen".
Erst mal Windows zerstört, indem ich #InstantOS installiert habe, basiert auf #Arch.
Einfach, weil das Bedienkonzept so ganz anders ist und ich damit lernen will :)
Will aber auch noch weitere Distributionen drauf installieren.
Ziel soll dann sein, dass ich das MacBookPro wieder abstoße (das ich mir zugelegt hatte, weil ich darüber elektronische Musik machen wollte, wozu ich aber dann doch nicht so die Muse hatte - hm, vielleicht mal nochmal angehen, bevor ich es wegtue ...).
Den ganzen Tag mit verschiedenen Distributionen beschäftigt.
Dabei auf #FerenOS gestoßen, was mir auch einen sehr guten Eindruck macht.
Allerdings habe ich das auf der Partition installiert, auf der ich vorher #Solus hatte.
Naja, dann eben nochmal von vorne ...
Das ist ja das Schöne, an einem solchen Rechner "zum Spielen":
Installieren, einrichten, was anderes drüber installieren - hach, schön :'D
Btw:
Feren hat für mich die schönste #GRUB Bootloader Darstellung: sehr minimalistisch :'D
Who would've thought the first piece I finish this year would be one of the weirdest pokémon we've gotten in recent years cosplaying as a depressed worm-person doing its best!
Unsure about the colors/values still, especially at thumbnail scales. But really like how the halftone layer turned out! You just gotta zoom in... 🔎
For anyone doing some regular #linux system updates (especially since 2.12 got flagged "stable" on #gentoo), grub 2.12 changes the EFI install directories and enables shim lock by default, in the news update it tells you about the install directories (simply blow away your /boot/EFI and let grub rebuild it, way better than their instructions), the shim lock is a bit more tricky, it seems to not be working correctly in 2.12 and even with SB disabled trips up.
For a #manjaro system currently running #grub, do you think #systemdboot would be an upgrade I should consider? I don't have any problems with GRUB per se, but somehow to me it always feels a bit out of place, if that makes any sense. What is your #bootmanager of choice? #linux
@krevedkokun shared a cool thread about uki-bootloader implementation for guix, which brings alternative to grub and better encrypted root support. The solution has some drawbacks, but still very nice to see this work done!
So this Christmas not only will I be merrily eating and drinking but I've decided I'm going to wipe my daily driver aka the #ThinkPad P14s Gen1 AMD and reinstall #VoidLinux . So this time instead of having an EFI boot partition and LVM encrypted swap and root. I'm going to have the usual EFI boot partition along with an un-encrypted swap partition and a fully encrypted #ZFS partition. Keeping the swap out of the zpool will allow me to use suspend to disk if I ever decided to use it.
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Also I'll be replacing #Grub with #ZFSBootMenu as it'll boot faster. Grub on my laptop takes 40+ seconds as it's slow to unlock.
That's the plan anyway. 🙃
Great news for those who care ! #Grub has fixed #XFS issue after a couple of moths of it being in limbo.. Will be bringing it back next release of #XeroLinux.. YaY ! #FOSS#OpenSource#Linux
Hi, I'm not the most expert user, but I've been messing with my latest linux install for a few months. I costumized the look of the GRUB, but whenever the kernel gets updated and the grub.cfg gets regenerated, the classes of two entries do not generate (efi and submenu), leaving the entries with no icons (which are determined by...
When we're doing vuln hunting on internet appliances, we often want a shell in order to figure out what's going on. For the F5 research we were lucky, you could just SSH into the box and immediately get access to relevant config files and binaries. Lots of other appliances don't like to give out that access, they might give some kind of restricted/custom shell, or maybe they just don't expose anything at all.
In order to get around this, we'll often grab VM images and then boot from a live cd / alternate linux install and mount the disks. More recent Sonicwall appliances prevent this behavior, however. Their disk partitions are all LUKS encrypted, which prevents nosey researchers like myself from being able to mount them via another OS that doesn't have the encryption keys.
What's interesting though, is that if you boot from the base image (as intended), it just works. GRUB does have a mechanism for embedding decryption keys into the boot process, but this often means just leaving the decryption key in the boot partition, which is pretty easy to grab. This is not what Sonicwall NSV appliances do.
The TL;DR is that Sonicwall modified their GRUB bootloader to perform decryption key derivation based off of the partition metadata. This is very much NOT default GRUB behavior (as far as I'm aware), so someone at Sonicwall went out of their way to bake this into the bootloader. It was a fun RE experience though, definitely got to learn a lot!
Hey #Linux wise-ones: is installing #BURG a bad idea? I mean #GRUB works fine, but it's hella ugly, and I must have beauty, I simply must, lest I wither and die.
It has been brought to my attention that #Grub is still having issues with random "shim_lock_enabled" message refusing to boot. If you are affected either do a full power cycle (off then on again) or follow this Chroot guide to get back up n running. They are still working on a more permanent fix. #FOSS#Linux#OpenSource https://forum.xerolinux.xyz/thread-164.html
Yesterday night I've been hacking on #grub and I wonder if I should bother with sending my changes upstream.
What tends to dissuade me from doing it is that most distros carry dozens of out-of-tree-patches, suggesting they weren't accepted (yet?). On top of it my changes touch memdisk functionality which is largely undocumented.
Now that I'm re-reading this it really feels like #FOSS at its finest.
How to automatically assign classes in GRUB?
Hi, I'm not the most expert user, but I've been messing with my latest linux install for a few months. I costumized the look of the GRUB, but whenever the kernel gets updated and the grub.cfg gets regenerated, the classes of two entries do not generate (efi and submenu), leaving the entries with no icons (which are determined by...