GRUB 2.04 Release Candidate Brings Globs Of New Features

[fuzz]

That's nearly a decade old hardware, btw.

Yes, my primary workstation is a dual socket Opteron board with a pair of Opteron 6344s. No UEFI, but still serves me well for many things.

[starshipeleven]

Except for systems still around that don't have UEFI....

That's nearly a decade old hardware, btw.

(I'm also disregarding ARM and such because they don't usually boot GRUB)

[fuzz]

Grub is basically superfluous in this modern era ... Just use any other UEFI bootloader.

Except for systems still around that don't have UEFI....

F2FS support sounds pretty cool, it will kill the need for any other file systems in my use, especially considering that it seems to perform well on SSDs. I guess it will be time to recompile coreboot and move all my data to a superior file system.

[scineram]

Grub is basically superfluous in this modern era. At least it will not work with OpenZFS going forward. Just use any other UEFI bootloader.

[Chugworth]

I'm waiting for the btrfs zstd support, it really helps to reduce the size on the root device even if lzo was used.

Ideally I just use the EFISTUB boot method if the computer supports it. Don't even bother with a bootloader and use the EFI menu if you want to boot to other installations. There are some strange EFI implementations that don't work with it, and in that case I use systemd-boot. Both of those methods work fine with an encrypted Btrfs root using ZSTD compression. That's how I have my personal computers configured.

[skeevy420]

Systemd's bootctl just works fine if you want a menu

We're just asking for it.

EDIT: phoronix Can I get my last post approved?

[skeevy420]

What about ZFS encryption instead? I would love to see it implemented.

Looks like very basic support for old Solaris ZFS encryption. That and ZFS compression are the features I'm waiting on.

For the meantime with GRUB we have to use LUKS on a GRUB-compat ZFS volume for encrypted ZFS /boot. The rest of / can be encrypted with ZFS and the unlock key passed by GRUB.

If you don't need GRUB then you can use systemd-boot for a 100% ZFS encrypted setup. My system is just old enough that I don't have UEFI to be able to use systemd-boot. I'm looking into using Clover or some other UEFI emulator combined with systemd-boot to get around the GRUB and no UEFI limitations since I don't think GRUB will support advanced ZFS features anytime soon.

[q2dg]

I avoid it entirely and just load my kernels directly through EUFI

Systemd's bootctl just works fine if you want a menu

[FireBurn]

I avoid it entirely and just load my kernels directly through EUFI