| 2 Aug 2025 |
K900 | * No it's fucking not | 11:07:47 |
K900 | We're just holding it SO WRONG | 11:07:51 |
emily | no I've like | 11:08:00 |
emily | read the docs | 11:08:02 |
emily | its model is just not good at what we'd really want | 11:08:08 |
K900 | 90% of it is genuinely perfectly fine | 11:08:14 |
K900 | We just need to replace the other 10% with our own shit | 11:08:25 |
K900 | Which they make easy | 11:08:28 |
K900 | Unless I'm missing something big | 11:08:39 |
emily | it can't even do /boot that works properly with disk encryption across both BIOS and UEFI. | 11:08:50 |
emily | though that's not a super NixOS-y thing | 11:09:01 |
K900 | That's not possible on legacy boot | 11:09:03 |
K900 | So don't care | 11:09:09 |
emily | what? no | 11:09:10 |
emily | by properly I mean unencrypted | 11:09:16 |
emily | and surely you mean UEFI | 11:09:26 |
emily | the reason we install with encrypted /boot on BIOS is that Calamares is too dumb to do anything else unless we make the mount point different for ESPs | 11:09:58 |
K900 | I mean fully encrypted boot is not possible on legacy | 11:10:00 |
K900 | Yes but we can just like, do that | 11:10:13 |
emily | I don't think you understand what I'm saying | 11:10:34 |
emily | we encrypt more on BIOS for bad reasons because of Calamares being stupid | 11:10:37 |
K900 | Yes I know | 11:10:41 |
K900 | But we don't have to do that | 11:10:46 |
K900 | If we just use a different partition layout | 11:10:54 |
emily | tbf systemd upstream lightly recommends /efi for ESPs so we could just do that and it would fix it | 11:10:58 |
K900 | Or honestly it will take like five lines of code to fix this upstream too | 11:11:10 |
emily | and a separate XBOOTLDR is probably not a terrible idea given Windows | 11:11:16 |
emily | but you cannot have /boot as unencrypted FAT32 that is an ESP on UEFI and an XBOOTLDR on BIOS with unpatched Calamares | 11:11:57 |
emily | which is going to be the natural default setup once we switch BIOS to Limine | 11:12:10 |
emily | I wouldn't mind doing /efi though. but I bet it would annoy people | 11:12:46 |