Re: Booting via systemd-boot

On Sunday, 5 April 2026 05:09:44 British Summer Time Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 April 2026 15:52:09 British Summer Time I wrote:
> > On Saturday, 4 April 2026 14:37:24 British Summer Time Michael wrote:
> > > I have steered away from systemd-boot altogether and for my UEFI 
systems
> > > from GRUB too, using the rather basic but elegant in its simplicity EFI
> > > stub instead.
> > 
> > I think I'll try that. I've been deterred so far by its not working on all
> > systems, as my experience confirms.
> 
> ...and indeed it doesn't work on this machine. On the other hand, I'm most
> likely doing something wrong, as the handbook is no help at all: it just
> says to emerge installkernel. That's it. No package.use or anything else.

It transpires that I was doing something wrong: specifying the wrong PARTUUID. 
As usual, the fault lay between the screen and the keyboard. :)  Now that I've 
fixed that, it works well.

I tried rEFInd, but it's too gaudy for me. I dare say I could tone it down a 
bit by tweaking its config, and I may come back to that later.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.