Following up my previous post on installing coreboot on X230, I decided to completely liberate my laptop. The method that I was using only covers the BIOS, leaving the other portion of the laptop firmware would remain untouched. While I would want to let the low-level stuff (e.g. firmwares for the...
So I decided to by myself a small but powerful enough laptop. Online, I found this nice small Thinkpad laptop with an i7 processor. As with any reasonable person, I did my homework before making my final decision. Not only that it can have RAM up to 16 GB, mSATA SSD (along with 2.5" SATA), and dock...
I am getting tired of the boring text interface upon boot prompting the disk encryption password.
Enter Plymouth. It provides bootsplash thru initramfs.
To use Plymouth, I have to leave the familiar genkernel (kindly provided by Gentoo) to embrace Dracut.
Grub change:
root=/dev/mapper/root...I had a case of update went wrong that kept me up well after the office hour. I even had to take it home with me, as I couldn't afford to have it found in the morning. Thankfully I managed to solve it in time for a good night sleep.
It was a web application created on top of Laravel framework. The...
I am a longtime user of Gentoo Linux. I've had my Gentoo system running on my desktop tower for years.
... until one day when my SSD busted and lost all my data.
After compiling and installing everything -- including the kernel, bootloader, KDE, all on encrypted root filesystem -- ran it just fi...
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