https://github.com/anatol/booster

Does this give any real world value for boot times or anything else?

I have no possibility to test this in VM so that’s why I’m asking if anybody has actually tried this and found benefits.

  • patatahooligan@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Grub can load booster images, the issue is about incorrect grub.cfg generation.

    What they’re saying in the issue is that grub-mkconfig will not create a correct “Arch Linux” menu entry for booster, but if you go to “Advanced options” and choose the “booster” menu entry it works. I can confirm this. It happened on the system I’m currently using.

    Specifically, the problem is that grub-mkconfig does not add the booster image to the initrd of the default menu entry. You can add it manually. For example I had to change this

    initrd  /intel-ucode.img
    

    to this

    initrd  /intel-ucode.img /booster-linux-zen.img
    

    If I recall correctly this issue was not present last time I set up a system with booster. It might be a regression or maybe it only happens in specific system configurations.

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      4 months ago

      understood, so no big issue with grub, cool !