Hi all,

Is there a KDE front-end to systemd-boot? Happy to request upstream.

Failing that what's the best way to change the boot order. I have a machine I'm going to give someone and I want it to boot to windows first.

Hope you new year is going well!

LL

    LostLombard I want it to boot to windows first.

    In loader.conf, add/change entry

    default Windows7

    or whatever your title of your windows.conf is
    assuming, of course your windows $esp is the same as KaOS.

    If different ($esp),
    copy over the windows file bootmgfw.efi to KaOS $esp
    make an 'windows.conf' in entries directory
    and proceed as above.

    OR
    Just change efibootentry order with 'efibootmgr -o xxxx,yyyy'
    or do that at the bios setup.

    • demm replied to this.

        Systemd-boot is it's own GUI within the bootloader menu. You can edit files as gohlip suggests, but it is as easy as using the arrow key while in the bootloader, highlight the entry you want to boot into (Windows in this case) and use the d key to make that the default. A > will now show besides the Windows entry now. You can set the time the bootloader shows with t.
        See https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/systemd-boot/, keys section.

            demm Thanks demm

            Does it make sense to have a KDE front-end to it like the old days?

            Also, is it worth reporting to systemd that they could either show these commands on the screen or have another key like "i" for more information then print out the keybindings?

            Thanks again.

            • demm replied to this.

                LostLombard Does it make sense to have a KDE front-end to it like the old days?

                You mean grub editor? That is a third party KCM, not developed by KDE (KaOS has distro specific KCMs too with user manager and language selector).
                But no, for systemd-boot, very few distro's use it despite it's power and simplicity......

                LostLombard reporting to systemd that they could either show these commands on the screen

                Systemd-boot does not show anything on the screen, all it does is read the entries (that you can edit, and not filled by default in systemd-boot) in /boot/loader/entries. Not seen the menu KaOS uses in Live mode, with edit instructions added?
                https://github.com/KaOSx/live-uefi/blob/master/configs/shared/boot-files/loader/entries/kaos-usb.conf#L4

                Systemd-boot strength is it's simplicity and ease of use, like just editing two very simple files to change what you want. I will look into adding a KCM for KaOS for this (maybe as part of user KCM).

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