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Here are the results for the community poll I ran last week, on #Linux desktop and WM customization.
The results were a bit surprising to me, and seem to indicate that while a lot of people take advantage of the various layout options, themes and icons don't get changed a lot:
[Question] New SSD installed in old legacy bios Laptop (Asus N76V) caused boot issues on main system?
Hello everyone :).
Trying to keep it short, cause after 2 days of troubleshooting I’m a bit tired and really confused on what happened here… Maybe it’s my lack of understanding about Legacy BIOS/UEFI/EFI/Bootloader/GRUB… But that was really an odd “issue” that resolved by itself?
Intro
My 15 years old laptop, an Asus N76V, is still going strong, though It’s purpose is not the same as a few years back. It’s working great as a mini-server to host docker containers, DNS server, firewall, wireguard tunnel…
Space left on my volume group (LVM) was getting tight so I decided to install a new Samsung 1TB SSD into it’s second slot. As easy as it is, I though this would not take more than 30 minutes…
Old SSD just vanished from boot option in bios.
After booting into BIOS to see if the new SSD is recognized, everything seems okay, however my primary SSD containing the Bootloader and system just vanished as boot option?? I was not to angry about it because if something strange had happened and everything got wiped for whatever reason, I still have my daily backups, so the troubleshooting begins…
Things I have tried so bring my primary SSD back as boot option in BIOS
Though my secondary and new SSD shows as boot option, it’s empty and has no Bootloader or system installed.
- Change a lot of things in the BIOS
From AHCI to password protection and disable anti-theft, secure boot… I think I changed every option possible (related to SSD) in the BIOS and reverted back to default without my primary SSD showing again as boot option.
- Clear CMOS
Opening the case and taking out the little battery to clear the CMOS had not effect at all either.
- boot into Debian rescue mode, boot-repair, chroot session
From a Live session USB tried a few things in rescue mode and even in the Live session used the boot-repair tool and tried to manually fix the EFI/Bootloader in a chrooted environment, because Yes even if I couldn’t boot into my system my data was still there an safe !!
- Disconnect new SSD, swap bay position.
Even when I removed the new SSD from it’s SATA connection or swaped SATA bay connections, the primary SSD didn’t showed back into the BIOS…
Guess I have to reinstall Debian on my new SSD?
So I gave up on trying to fix the Bootloader and primary SSD and just went for a fresh Debian install on my new SSD.
Nothing uncommon during the installation process except that during the partition all my volume groups and logical volumes from my primary SSD are visible, so I left them alone and created a new VG and LVs. I do as usual a LVM manual partioning with EXT4 filesystem with separate /boot partition, however I forgot to set the ESP partition (was getting a bit late and got a bit on my nerves…). Installation went without issues.
And then It came back…
So booting into my BIOS to see if my new SSD boot position is okay… Ohhhhh and what a surprise to see my primary SSD back as boot choice… however my new SSD isn’t there anymore (expected as I forgot to set an ESP partition… And Bootloader is from my primary SSD).
Booting into my system I’m greeted by the Bootloader? GRUB? With 2 choices
- My old linux OS
- My new linux OS
Some kind of relief and happy moment after 2 days…
Kinda curious what happens If set the /boot/EFI partition on secondary SSD
I got kinda confused on what happened here so to further confuse myself I reformatted and reinstalled Debian on the secondary disk with the correct /boot/EFI partition.
And I got even more confused… The boot priority in BIOS only shows the secondary SSD as boot option…!?
Questions
What happend here?
Why did my primary SSD (which had a proper Bootloader and clean system) disappeared as boot option in the BIOS as soon as I installed a new blank SSD and didn’t came back even when the new one was unplugged from SATA?
Why does my BIOS only shows 1 disk as possible boot device when both have proper Bootloader and system?
Does 1 external Bootloader suffice to make both system work?!
Not sure about the last qusstion… so maybe I’m looking more a less to sharpen my understanding of a Bootloader/EFI/UEFI/GRUB… And any hint to a good resource, book, eBook to get a better understanding is really appreciated :)
I know those are a lot of words (and I said I will keep it short…) but I think the context is important here, and I’m not able to express correctly my issue/thoughts without it.
Thanks in advance for those who beared with me and read the whole text and can hint me to the correct direction to a better understanding on what happened.
PSA: PlaytronOS
Playtron has made some waves in Linux gaming. They have lots of big names in Linux working on the project. Recently they were featured by Framework today in their presentation. However, I think it’s abundantly clear that anyone who cares about FOSS should stay far away from this.
I was intrigued by this as well some months ago. I even ignored when they blatantly lied about Valve/Steam locking down their OS to only play Steam games. So I gave it a try and installed it. On setup they wanted me to agree to a EULA. That was red flag #2. Never seen that before. Then they wanted me to agree to their privacy policy. It is a very typical corporate user-hostile privacy policy. Some highlights
- Like many website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Website. This includes Log Data, such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics, and whether you reached our page via a social media or email campaign. This information may be collected via several technologies, including cookies, web beacons, clear GIFs, canvas fingerprinting and other means, such as Google Remarketing and Facebook Pixel.
- If you access our Sites through third parties (e.g., Facebook or Google), or if you share content from our Sites to a third-party social media service, the third-party service will send us certain information about you if the third-party service and your account settings allow such sharing.
- “Professional, employment, or education information, such as your industry and job level, for news personalization, or copies of your resume or CV and any other information required to verify your qualifications, for recruitment purposes”
- “Commercial information, such as a record of purchased products or subscriptionsInferences about your consumer preferences or characteristics.”
How we use personal information:
- To market our products and/or services to you
- With respect to website cookies, to share with third-party marketing partners to provide tailored advertising on our Website and other websites that you may visit
We share your information with our third-party service providers and any subcontractors as required to offer you our products and services. The service providers we use help us to:
- run email and mobile messaging campaigns;
- perform marketing analytics;
- provide measurement services and target ads (you can opt out of these services at websites such as www.aboutads.info/choices and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/)
They even admit to not respecting “Do Not Track” signals.
Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Mark Knopfler's number
🎶 Everybody Pays 🎶
#life #coffee #music #linux #research
.....and some rudimentary ritual ....
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Ummm ...#linux Next update ...and sipping at my chilled tropical drink 🍹
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Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 LTS, and More - 9to5Linux
two types of #linux user
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A meme showing two opposite experiences using Linux distributions, Arch and Linux Mint. The left panel shows a tired-looking person with dark circles under their eyes, representing an Arch Linux user. The text describes their experience as Arch Linux user: "Turn on computer at 8:45 a.m. Troubleshoot computer. Test. Customize. Tinker. Test a few programs. It's 3 A.M. Turn off computer. Go to sleep." The right panel shows a cheerful person representing a Linux Mint user. Their text reads: "Turn on computer at 8:45 a.m. Check updates in the GUI tool. Work/game/stream content. Turn off computer at 5:05 p.m. Go out to touch grass."Distro suggestions
I’m looking for a distro that will be able to get the most out of my graphics on an MSI Katana laptop.
Right now I have Debian Bookworm running the Nvidia binary driver, and the graphics lags a bit compared to when this laptop had Windows 11 on it.
I’m playing Final Fantasy XIV, and doing web browsing on it.
I’d like to stay with something Debian based and running Gnome. Ubuntu is not ideal because I have trust issues with Canonical since the Amazon ad debacle back in the late 00s.
Can y’all give suggestions for a distribution that might work better, or some tweaks that might optimize the performance on Debian?
Should I just wait for Trixie and see if that give better performance?
I’m just spitballing for ideas here. Thanks in advance for any advice.
Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and some Blues 🎶🎶🎶🎶
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......and some rudimentary ritual ....
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I'll defer upgrading my Linux Mint box for the next one or two major releases, as I'm enjoying the stability of the system and the smooth experience it enables.
https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/paoloamoroso/enjoying-the-stability-of-linux
Well, a cup of hot coffee ☕ and Frank Sinatra's number
🎶 All My Tomorrow 🎶
#life #coffee #music #linux #research
....and some rudimentary ritual ....
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Multi-Gen LRU is a game changer on my low memory netbook
On my low RAM/CPU netbook it is a game changer; thanks to ZRAM the netbook is perfect for browsing the internet/light work. When running my backups (creates big tarballs) or Ansible though, my desktop/applications would freeze/stutter noticeably. Enabling MGLRU simply solved the problem of freezes/stuttering, it feels like magic and besides ZRAM, I don’t know of any other lever with this massive impact on desktop performance.
Just wanted to share this, for other users with low RAM/CPU hardware. I would assume the observed difference is less dramatic, once 8GB of RAM are available, but I would love to hear about other experiences.
I would also love to hear/learn about other levels with high impact to tweak for low RAM/CPU desktop devices. Anything else to tweak under /sys /proc which has impact on performance?
Packages similar to Earlyoom?
So recently I just come across Earlyoom and it has completely resolved my desktop crashing and better handles my memory, I was wondering if there is any other software that I’m missing that could potentially improve my systems resource handling?
Distro = Debian, KDE Plasma 5
