openSUSE Tumbleweed Adds systemd-boot Support

[drake23]

Does it work with encrypted boot as opensuse sets it up?

[User42]

Does it work with encrypted boot as opensuse sets it up?

It's only a boot manager... The only things that might not be working (yet) are ones explicitly dependant on grub's scripts (they are few and with the bootloader specs, that grub supports too, adding sdboot support actually means supporting grub too, no duplicated work). Decryption happens in initramfs so it will work without doing anything special.

[dremon_nl]

Does it work with encrypted boot as opensuse sets it up?

Yes it works with FDE.

[Vistaus]

That's the final straw for me!
I'm switching to Artix dinit

So all year long on Phoronix I read nothing but people complaining about GRUB and raving about how fantastic systemd-boot is, and now that a distro adds support, it's not good? Please help me understand.

[user1]

So all year long on Phoronix I read nothing but people complaining about GRUB and raving about how fantastic systemd-boot is, and now that a distro adds support, it's not good? Please help me understand.

I was surprise as well. Considering how brittle Grub can be at times, I would love to see a more robust alternative being more widely adopted.

[yump]

So all year long on Phoronix I read nothing but people complaining about GRUB and raving about how fantastic systemd-boot is, and now that a distro adds support, it's not good? Please help me understand.

Clearly seemed to be a joke to me, though not a particularly funny one.

My feelings about systemd are mostly positive, but Linux communities do entirely too much circlejerking about people who are reluctant to jump onto this year's new hotness, IMO.

[skeevy420]

So all year long on Phoronix I read nothing but people complaining about GRUB and raving about how fantastic systemd-boot is, and now that a distro adds support, it's not good? Please help me understand.

Does that help?

[archkde]

So all year long on Phoronix I read nothing but people complaining about GRUB and raving about how fantastic systemd-boot is, and now that a distro adds support, it's not good? Please help me understand.

Systemd-boot is pretty good, but some people just complain whenever they read the word "systemd".

[User42]

So all year long on Phoronix I read nothing but people complaining about GRUB

Certainly different people... And you are citing a person who can't distinguish adding and removing a feature. I am not sure it is that common to find people that confused.

[drake23]

It's only a boot manager... The only things that might not be working (yet) are ones explicitly dependant on grub's scripts (they are few and with the bootloader specs, that grub supports too, adding sdboot support actually means supporting grub too, no duplicated work). Decryption happens in initramfs so it will work without doing anything special.

No, the open suse setup is actually with encrypted /boot, so grub decrypts /boot BEFORE initramfs gets loaded. Hence my question if systemd boot works with that kind of setup.