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Re: Bootloaders: What do you wish was better?

I am using syslinux on my PCs for about 15 years or so. Most trouble was when I upgraded to motherboard doesn't have "legacy BIOS boot mode" and I have to learn and adopt that UEFI crap. But bootloader-wise it was only one command to reinstall....

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October 8, 2026 at 2:27 PM

hyperspace aeri・超新時空ゲイムアエーリ

@aeriavelocity.dev

I made a website for ARISU
aeriavelocity.dev/projects/arisu

ARISU (Aeri's Recovery ISO with Superfluous Utilities) website splash
It calls itself a 'Hyperdimensionally opinionated Arch ISO by Arsalan "Aeri" Kazmi'

The English and Japanese names, as well as descriptions, for ARISU Standard and ARISU Neptune.
ARISU Standard's description reads as follows.

The standard flavour of ARISU for x86_64 computers.

This is what you want if you're planning to use ARISU on most desktop PCs or in a virtual machine.

Systems using UEFI (so, most computers released in the past decade or so) will boot using GRUB 2, and older systems or virtual machines using Legacy BIOS will boot using Syslinux.

Keep in mind for UEFI systems, especially ones that come with Windows (which is most of them), ARISU does not build in support for Secure Boot. You'll have to enter your firmware configuration and disable Secure Boot yourself in order to boot ARISU.

ARISU Neptune's description reads as follows.

A purple-tinted flavour of ARISU for AArch64 computers.

This only exists as a concept since Arch Linux currently doesn't support ARM architectures.

As for Arch Linux ARM, that's a different thing entirely, is unconnected to the main Arch Linux project, and is incompatible with archiso tooling. Manjaro ARM works differently and probably uses its own workflows based atop ALARM.

However, Holo Core isn't far away, so it may not be hypothetical forever!

The ARISU Neptune wallpaper is still available in the ARISU Standard ISO, so you can absolutely pretend you're on an ARM system if you want.

September 18, 2026 at 11:41 PM

Damian

@hrmny.digital

I love LLM hallucinations so much

this is not a thing, alpine doesn't support automatic setups

code snippet from ChatGPT, in which it tells the user to add "autoinstall=cdrom:/autoinstall.conf" to the syslinux-entry of an alpine iso

December 30, 2024 at 10:29 PM

Filippo Valsorda

@filippo.abyssdomain.expert

Ok, this is done and it works! ✨

I apk install stuff into a chroot, pull out /boot, and package the rest as an initrams. Test with qemu or chroot, sftp it over to the boot device, then “syslinux --once” into it.

No moving parts at boot. “Config” is a tree of files and a short build-time script.

Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · Oct 23

Anyway, sounds like my NAS is going to be an Alpine rootfs compressed as a giant initramfs.

github.com/alpinelinux/... is 90% of the way there. Just needs an init and a kernel.

Kinda surprised no one made this into a thing yet. You can even make it do A/B boot with just, like, GRUB.

GitHub - alpinelinux/alpine-make-rootfs: Make customized Alpine Linux rootfs (base image) for containers

Make customized Alpine Linux rootfs (base image) for containers - alpinelinux/alpine-make-rootfs

github.com

October 27, 2024 at 5:08 PM

Nerves Project

@nerves-project.org

nerves_system_br v0.4.1 released! Updated Erlang and Elixir versions on targets; BBB eMMC and x86 fixes. https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_br/releases/tag/v0.4.1

Release v0.4.1 · nerves-project/nerves_system_br

Bug fixes syslinux fails to boot when compiled on some g...

github.com

December 4, 2024 at 4:41 PM

Maik Zumstrull

@maik.zumstrull.net

SHA1 I think. But most implementations were so slow to move away from MD5 that they skipped directly to SHA256 and never bothered to add SHA1 support.

Syslinux understands it as SHA1: git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot...

March 21, 2024 at 2:42 PM

まっさん

@massann.bsky.social

やっとPorteusのセーブファイル有効にできた。syslinuxをインストールしたのが良くなかったらしい。インストールの仕方が複数あるので、ごちゃごちゃになっていたらしい。syslinuxのコンフィグファイルを変更したら反映された。

January 24, 2026 at 9:33 AM

Motor Trend's le Carré of the Year

@nrr.corvidae.org

Going up the tree to IBM, it used to be common practice to follow GC26-3792 in order to stand up a new mainframe. That document and the LFS instructions are not entirely unlike each other.

I can stand up Windows PE from scratch using syslinux and mkisofs. It's all just software.

September 25, 2023 at 10:08 PM

specialinterestanonymous

@transgenderbovine.bsky.social

it was getting stuck at syslinux unable to find uuid/uuid.d or something like that? will have to recheck it today

April 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM

Lemmy [Unofficial]

@lemmy.ml.web.brid.gy

the self checkout machines at Walmart need a reboot. syslinux 6.03

submitted by skiguy0123 to linux 111 points | 17 comments

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October 25, 2025 at 11:40 PM

CodeAsm

@codeasm.com

Syslinux is capable of giving wimboot and windows 7 winpe to a laptop over the network tho. I had the folder permissions wrong.. after all changing things i overlooked that part. Hehe. Oops. Ai isnt always helping.

Compaq laptop netbooted into windows 7 installer

July 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM

Amber :neodog_box:

@puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy

Ideal Linux installation is initramfs-less and just boots off of an efi stub. SYSLINUX? systemd-bootd? grub2? nah fuck that

January 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM

The Almighty Overseer

@thealmightyos.bsky.social

I have limited drive space as it is in my case. Two 2.5 bays, one 3.5 and the board can only support 2 M.2 (3 if I wanted to give up a PCIe slot, which I don't). One drive SysWin, One SysLinux, one HDD for cold storage leaves only two more drive bays. Not enough unless I want to splurge on 4tb SSDs

September 18, 2025 at 9:16 PM