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Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption

13 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2021-04-13 · latest 2024-07-23

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  1. Best option to date: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu A shame most distro's installers don't support it natively, but an encrypted rootfs on ZFS is great once you get it setup.
    comment by rabf · 2024-07-23 · in Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux
  2. As an aside I can heartedly recommend zfsbootmenu for anyone using zfs on linux: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
    comment by rabf · 2024-07-09 · in No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
  3. …things. We have a zdebug logging function that's peppered liberally throughout the code base - https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme... Hitting ctrl-t on our main menu will, when booting with debug logging enabled,…
    comment by E39M5S62 · 2024-03-02 · in Bash Debugging
  4. …recognizes - it really helped identify where we could improve the performance of ZFSBootMenu. https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/releases/tag/v1.12.0 Don't fall in the trap of thinking things have to be written entirely in bash; it's…
    comment by E39M5S62 · 2023-08-09 · in Pure Bash Bible (2018)
  5. …process or direct user selection), ZFSBootMenu launches that kernel using the kexec command. * https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
    comment by throw0101b · 2023-03-26 · in When root on ZFS breaks on Arch Linux
  6. I'm continuing to work on https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu . Support for Debian's initramfs-tools, more install guides for distributions, better documentation.
    comment by E39M5S62 · 2023-01-02 · in Ask HN: What are you working on this year?
  7. …etc. (No affiliate; just a very happy user.) [1]: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?58555 [2]: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/wiki/Remote-Access-to...
    comment by sirn · 2022-11-12 · in ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environments for Linux
  8. …there's no manual/error prone setup to be able to boot the file with any required/extra arguments. https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/wiki/Portable-ZFSBoot...
    comment by E39M5S62 · 2022-11-04 · in Linux boot partitions and how to set them up
  9. I'm a huge fan of UKI - it's part of the underlying 'magic' of ZFSBootMenu ( https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/ ). We ship a single EFI file that is a full Linux kernel, a semi-custom initramfs and an embedded command line. With that,…
    comment by E39M5S62 · 2022-11-04 · in Linux boot partitions and how to set them up
  10. …interface of ZFSBootMenu is created with it. It has a pretty solid set of scripting capabilities! https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/media/v1.... https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme...
    comment by E39M5S62 · 2022-03-21 · in Fzf – a command-line fuzzy finder
  11. …and Ubuntu with zsys. bieaz: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Arc... zbm: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu zsys: https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys
    comment by 5wp3 · 2021-07-29 · in Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots
  12. …[3]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS [4]: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/wiki
    comment by sirn · 2021-05-06 · in Deep Diving into the Strengths of FreeBSD
  13. Take a look at https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/ . Full boot environment support for Linux, along with the ability to create a new environment from a snapshot in your bootloader, live-diff snapshots to see _when_ something changed,…
    comment by E39M5S62 · 2021-04-13 · in FreeBSD 13.0