*also sends hugs* :(

upgrading Arch Linux after half a year of inactivity is always a fun adventure

double-checked a few things to be sure:

- efibootmgr should now have a new entry for grub. (I also purged the old EFI boot stuff)
- 'strings /efi/EFI/grub/grubx64.efi' should contain the right fs_uuid for the root partition

and then i hit the reboot button...

... it worked. (anticlimactic ending)

only tricky part was relocating the EFI mountpoint from /boot to /efi. 'umount' doesn't work; have to edit /etc/fstab and run 'systemd daemon-reload' instead

then I just removed the imgs from /efi, regenerated them in /boot via 'pacman -S amd-ucode linux', re-ran grub-install + grub-mkconfig

now I could do something astronomically dangerous and resize the EFI partition while the system is running ...

nah, turns out GRUB works just fine: only needs 160KiB of EFI space!

idk why I stopped using GRUB (maybe its config system was too complicated or I just valued the elegance of EFI boot?)

so now I have to fix this or Arch won't boot again

can't make a recovery disk either: since kernel just got updated, the driver for the flash drive won't load until restart :'3

(sure I could just boot into Windows and make a recovery disk there but we need the stakes high for dramatic effect)

Windows always makes these tiny 100MiB EFI partitions and it sucks for EFI boot because Linux images are huge

for a while I've been ignoring the problem since initramfs-linux.img just barely fits (even though fallback.img doesn't)

well now I can't anymore cuz initramfs-linux.img is 100MiB+ >_<;

For @fyl.wolfpa.ws

🎨: @agtbear.bsky.social and @kogikogikogi.bsky.social

it's a lot easier when the problem is fun!

much harder when the problem is boring -w-

weird that the rental provider charged me below market price for the fuel