On 2025-12-29 19:03, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

I admire CachyOS's advances in kernel-tuning and other forward-thinking offerings (such as Lemine as a modern alternative to GRUB, btrfs as default and alternate kernel schedulers) but I too am uninterested in being an involuntary regression tester. I'm hoping that other distros can learn from it.

Thanks for the pointer to "Limine". Since "bootloader" is the root cause of failed installs, I decided to give CachyOS another try, with other bootloaders (they give 5 choices).

CachyOS + grub --> fail
CachyOS + systemd-boot --> fail
CachyOS + Refind --> success
CachyOS + another Refind --> success
CachyOS + Limine --> success -- I like this one. You get "tree" list, rather than just linear list.

I found CachyOS about 10% faster than Fedora 43 in compiling Raspberry Pi kernels. But, there are quirks with CachyOS. Eg. "usermod" changes "user:group" in /etc/passwd okay, but doesn't change group setting of home directory. It's simple things, but it requires manual touch here and there, and pretty soon, leads to confusion and mistakes.

In the old days, Fedora's grub can boot other distros. But, on my machine, it can only boot itself, Fedora. It can't boot other distros on other disk. What is going on? Maybe motherboard problem? It is 10 year old.