Re: How to convert from GRUB to systemd-boot?

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> Is there someone that can help me convert my Fedora install from GRUB to systemd-boot and actually get it where kernel updates won't break it?
>
> The reason is that my MS Surface GO does not work with GRUB for some reason. Probably a non-standard UEFI implementation but I both found this to be the case personally and google seem to confirm this. One proposed solution is to use systemd-boot, which I have semi-successfully done.

Have you actually reported a bug against grub2 to see if it can be
fixed rather than assuming it's "a non-standard UEFI implementation"
because the thing with firmwares is is wide interpretation of the
standards ;-) it might be a more straight forward option than the
other alternative.

> Getting to where I can boot the currently installed kernel is chronicled here:
>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/DDSAMQUGXWYTHAC73W4DTLDOLRM56FNX/
>
> If I wasn't using both the internal NVME for "/" and a SD card for everything else I probably would have just converted the /boot partition to FAT32 and made it the new ESP partition...
>
> So the last two steps is:
>
> 1. See if I can get it working with secure boot enabled.
> 2. How to make it work with kernel updates which are completely grub centric.
>
> Side question: If you're booting EFI with GPT partitions, is there any advantage to using grub over systemd-boot? The latter seems much simpler as the former seems way more complicated than necessary including the very fragile environment block[1]
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1625124
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