Re: Debian netinstall systemd-boot (bootloader) support

[Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020, 2:27 AM Fun Society <one4away@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, can you guys add/provide systemd-boot option on the Debian installer? Because some of the UEFI laptop not supported grub bootloader, The bios automatically delete boot entry if the name of the grub boot entry not "Linux" and grub installation by Debian installer is named Debian so the machine won't detect the os.

The machine will boot if the grub is installed with this specific command:

grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --boot-directory=esp --bootloader-id="Linux"

Which is not the command provided by the Debian installer.

So I suggest systemd-boot should be added as options for bootloader installation on the Debian installer. The BIOS can automatically detect OS by systemd-boot.

I would like to learn more about systemd-boot.  Has anyone used it with Debian?  (The rather informative article I am reading is for Arch Linux, and was at the top of a Google Search). 

This probably happened on windows only supported os. 

It *does* say that it only works with uefi, meaning "recent Windows".

Kenneth Parker