On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 6:01 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:

Here's the thing: systemd-boot is very good at what it does. The
Gummiboot project was a great demonstration of a nice, simple boot
manager. Kay decided to fold it into the systemd project, which is
fine. It has benefited from the tighter integration with tools like
systemctl.

I have two problems with sd-boot:

1. It is absolutely butt-ugly.
2. It is absolutely horrible for people who need to navigate this "by surprise".

I don't disagree with either of those points, but I'm frustrated with grub due to this:

grub2-editenv: Error: Environment-Block is too small
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625124

It should be trivial for a decent C programmer to come up with some logic to fix this. Something like:

if < 1024 bytes but the last character is a # (after excluding white space or newlines) -> Adjust (pad) to 1024 bytes.

If > 1024 bytes and the 1024th bit is a #, then truncate to the correct length.

But this BZ has been open since 2018.

I like the simplicity of sd-boot and it was the only way I could get my MS Surface GO to boot Fedora. For whatever reason it refuses to cooperate with grub2.

I opted for a 1GB vfat partition and used it as /boot.

Thanks,
Richard