Thank you! Now I don't have to read all the grub2 manual right away. Works
mostly like I thought but first attempt was to edit the mkconfig- grub.cfg and
I failed to back it up Properly. I should have tried it first on a system that
didn't have 4 other distros laying around.
"Would you like to see us rule again, my friend? All you have to do is follow
the worms." Pink Floyd, The Wall, Waiting for the worms
Jul 5, 2019, 1:18 AM by ftu...@fastmail.fm:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, at 08:05, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
>
>> So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually
>> that can handle LUKS partitions? No uefi, but GPT would be nice.
>>
>
> I have a LUKS-encrypted system, GPT partitions, no UEFI, systemd, dracut,
> btrfs.
>
> I always manually create a /boot/grub/grub.cfg configuration file without
> using the grub-mkconfig command:
>
> timeout=-1
> menuentry 'Linux-libre 5.1.15' {
> linux /@i3/vmlinuz-5.1.15-gnu
> rd.luks.uuid=luks-e384faa4-d3ad-4171-b38e-8961bddab43f
> root=UUID=90a73cbd-f378-4424-93d9-661cbfec9e5a rootfstype=btrfs
> rootflags=subvol=@i3 init=/lib/systemd/systemd quiet loglevel=3
> rd.vconsole.keymap=it
> initrd /@i3/initramfs-5.1.15-gnu.img
> }
>
> It is pretty simple compared to what grub-mkconfig usually generates, and it
> works pretty well.
>
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