How can I take screenshots before my OS has loaded? Like of my #ZFSBootMenu or #grub2 ? Obv I could do this in a VM but most of my testing is on bare-metal on old laptopas. I believe there is a way I clearly remember from a deadit thread but I'm trying not to send any clicks that way.
#linux #boot #screenshot

The first thing I wanted to try when discovering zfs-on-root was multibooting snapshots and entire different distributions... but all I had was Ubuntu 19.10...22.04 zsys and /etc/grub.d/10_linux_zfs massive script...
Well I wrangled that premature ejaculation into arch and debian and proxmox; bpool & rpool & org.ubuntu.zsys props, built, zsys, and it worked, until it didn't and distro datasets got promiscuos.
I killed that 3 x ssd laptop with fire.
#zfs #zsysd #ubuntu #zfsbootmenu

I have been looking for a use case to work with #ZFS on my personal laptop. Then on #25admins episode 126 I hear about #ZfsBootMenu.

I've been reading the docs all weekend and this is awesome: clone, snapshot, and roll back system files. Encryption support. Ssh support at the boot menu. Where have I been? It feels like this is one of those things that will be impossible to let go of once I start using it.

So today: do I setup more of the nursery for the newborn arriving any day now? Or ZBM? :)

#ZFSBootMenu is a #Linux #bootloader that attempts to provide an experience similar to the #FreeBSD bootloader.

https://zfsbootmenu.org/

This looks promising.

#ZFS #GNULinux #Filesystem #boot