Trainzkid

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I'm confused about commands, I find checking the man page for the command a good start to understand what the flags do. Once you've got man-pages installed on your Linux system, you can do "man grub-install" (or any other command) from a terminal to see information about that command and it's flags.

I'm not sure if it says it in the Arch wiki, I think it might, but "esp" is often shorthand for whatever directory you're using as an EFI boot directory, I don't think it's a literal directory. On my Arch system, my esp is "/boot/EFI" I'm pretty sure.

As for why Gentoo doesn't include the --target flag, it could be that "x86_64-efi" is either the default on gentoo's version of grub, or just the default for every version of grub, meaning if the latter is the case, that flag could be safely omitted for your arch installation.

I'm pretty sure the --bootloader-id flag is just a friendly name for the bootloader that you can see from the terminal when booted into a Linux system and probably also from the bios menu. I'm not 100% though, a check through the man page would tell you more about that specific flag. Gentoo may omit it, leaving it either blank, or as some sort of default.

To answer your original question, the system boots up, does some basic checking of hardware to make sure everything can run okay and that there are no obvious faults or incompatibilities, then tries to load a program called a "bootloader" (such as grub), which will then hand off execution to whichever operating system you select. If you're not fond of grub, good news! There are plenty of other good bootloaders available. I'm a big fan of rEFInd (UEFI only) or systemd-boot.

I don't know grub SUPER well, but I'm pretty sure it gets installed in that --efi-directory location that you provide when you run the command. It might be nested a few directories down though, not sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's absurd! hides oil barrel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Heaven forbid I have an opinion that goes against the majority! #oneofus #oneofus #oneofus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could you give me a link or two? I'd love to do some reading. Finding trustworthy sources is hard

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

OnePlus 5T + Brave Asus ROG Phone 6 + Brave

Brave blocks ads without any annoying plugin, it's chromium based (I've always been a bit of a fan of chrome), and it allows me to use duckduckgo for search.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you use your cell connection on the 6T + PMOS? I've got an old 5T I'd love to flash Linux onto as a primary phone but not sure how support is on the OnePlus phones

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"we notice everyone is having trouble getting our previous model due to scalpers, so we released a new version at double the price!"

/s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've got an Arch server that I update monthly (and have been for 2+ years now), and a desktop that I update maybe 2-3 times a week. I've not had any issues, so long as I update the keyring first. Good luck!!

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

Can women please stop trying to be OnlyFans models we need mothers and emotional support I'm begging you

Also +1 for those who pointed out how weirdly gendered this post was

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, next question

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This sounds awesome, how did you get into it?

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