Garuda boot options hangs (NOT AFTER GRUB CUSTOMIZER THIS IS A BUG)

[tbg]

Is grub-customizer no longer on your system?

[binarydepth]

Yes it's not there anymore. Also restoring was very intuitive, just licked on the snapshot and clicked restore

[tbg]

Did you restore the snapshot you booted into from within the timeshift GUI afterwards?

[binarydepth]

I booted it and, reverted to when I just booted this morning. At session start I was prompted to restore, I then deleted the snapshot after the current one and clicked my current snapshot to click restore.

[tbg]

That is good. I was just checking as older versions of Garuda did not ensure the snapshot was restored from within the GUI.

Are you sure the snapshot you are using was created before grub-customizer was installed. Simply uninstalling grub-customizer does not reverse the changes it makes. You must be sure to roll back to a snapshot that was made before grub-customizer was installed.

[binarydepth]

@binarydepth

GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

Y IK ofc, it’s the configuration mess that it leave. It was a mistake. I reverted to before I even installed grub customizer

[tbg]

Just wanted to be sure is all. Luckily you dodged a bullet there.

[binarydepth]

BTRFS to the rescue of my misteps

[binarydepth]

I tried sudo garuda-boot-options and it didn't work either.

[SGS]

@SGS

Looks like you used grub-customizer.

@binarydepth

I tried sudo garuda-boot-options and it didn’t work either.

You (grub-customizer) destroyed some files, read the error messages you posted.
So, you have chosen the painful path to learn.
Make yourself knowledgeable before you install and use anything.
The system is corrupt, if you don’t have a working snapshot you have to reinstall.
The tool garuda-boot-options, is called boot-option and not grub-customizer-repairer.

[binarydepth]

Ok. But I reverted, and read the link on the comment I made that says "explanation" Is some bug with BTRFS

[petsam]

It’s a grub+btrfs limitation.
Set default boot entry manually.

I can't edit the grub entry

Comment out again and manually set default GRUB_DEFAULT=2 #GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true

[binarydepth]

That was reverted, ty

[binarydepth]

On a fresh install it still does the same. And for changing the Kernel, since I am switching it, I just uninstalled the one I don’t want to use.

ATTENTION:

issuing the command: sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg results in the sparse error to appear, don’t do it!

Looks like a lot of work here: Would love to know SH, could be easy…

/etc/grub.d

[tbg]

There are ways to work around this limitation:

Can't change default boot entry

Setting a default kernel does not currently work properly with grub and btrfs. What you can do instead is enable the last booted kernel to be used. This is not perfect but it is an adequate workaround to setting a permanent default kernel. To get this working is a bit of a pain, but unless you follow this procedure you will not be able to alter the kernel which is normally booted. Before editing important root configuration files be sure to make a backup first. Backup /etc/default/grub before …

[binarydepth]

Hey. I figure I just uninstall the kernels I won't use so it was a fool's errand for me. Figured before bed LOL, I'm looking at posts about choosing a kernel. I want to do Midi capture with LMMS and who knows if I do with MuseScore too and in my free time I play 3D games. I see there are option and TKG shold be good for gaming and Midi maybe doesn't need anything special but it's important it capture my key strokes the most precisely. XanMod, TKH Zen with Zen 1 optimizations. I have this from install Linux 5.12.5-zen1-1-zen

Back to topic!

This seemed to work though

GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT="true"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

And now I think I should go the route: update-grub Any harm on trying that?

UPDATE:

I did and an error appeared: "sparse file not allowed", thi sis becuase of incompatibilities between GRUB and BTRFS so it can't save the last booted entry, maybe because is set in /boot and that's on BTRFS.

I wonder if the installer can simply make a /boot partition and set it boot and esp flag, I think yes it can. That way we avoid any problems.