Make Grub find a Windows partition

Posted: 2024-04-07 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I have Linux installed on sda and Windows 10 installed on sdb. Both disks are EFI and I want to make Grub add Windows to the boot menu.
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Traditional names of network devices

Posted: 2024-02-04 | Author: | Filed under: network, system | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Moving from Slackware to CRUX, I noticed that my network devices have weird names, such as enp4s0. What happened to the good old eth0? It did not bother me much at first, but… For example, I have a firewall script, where I specify adapter names, and it is a bit annoying to always check for the specific one, depending on the computer I am working on.
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EFI and Grub

Posted: 2022-11-30 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

I’ve been tinkering with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M80Q. I disabled secure boot and since there is no legacy mode in the BIOS, I decided that it’s time to install Slackware with EFI. However, after the install was done, ELILO failed to boot the OS. So, I decided to use Grub.
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