This is one of my three Arch Linux installs, booted using Super Grub2 Disk.
I live barefooted and naked, very close to Earth and Nature, in a 16-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i. I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙
Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙
Yep, it's day five of my battle with the UEFI firmware on my new Dell Inspiron 15 3511, to get it to boot my three Arch Linux hard drives. My brain feels fried from all the intense reading, researching, and experimenting that I've been doing pretty much all day today, and most of the past five days. I've been exploring other bootloader/boot manager options, one of which is rEFInd, which seems to provide an ease of use and a good degree of configurability, including being able to create quite beautiful custom boot menus. I installed it and have been learning how to use it. I'll just say that I'm understanding much more, and I'm getting much closer to reaching my goal. Also, to make things far easier over time, I increased the size of EFI System Partition (ESP) to 1 GB.
A terminal window with info displayed by NeoFetch, along with a little at the bottom from custom BASH command strings that I created. This Arch install (my first, somewhat cheating using Antergos), was installed five years, three months, and twenty days ago. Arch is an always-up-to-date rolling release, so it's always 'new'.
The situation is also complicated by the fact that I swap between my three hard drives often, so I need to create a boot setup for each of them with the UEFI firmware. It's definitely far more complex than using BIOS/MBR booting, which is what I've used for most of my almost eleven years using Linux (six years on Ubuntu and now about four and a half years using Arch - not counting the year and a half that I had no computer to use it).
I've been getting better at staying up to date with Hive even with my intense focus on making this computer function with my hard drives, though I have not been able to give Hive quite the focus that I did before my computer arrived. I'll probably drop in the Hive Engagement League rank for this week. Oh well. I'll do my best with the time I have.
I stayed in super-geek-computer mode for much of my Sunday, until I pulled myself away just after 3:30PM to go work in the garden for a while. I did more weeding and clearing inside and along the edge of the fence. Somehow pigs had gotten inside the fence last night and did a little damage. The fence looked secure, so it's likely that they got in through the gate itself, which just had a twine tying it shut. I used the metal hook this time, along with the twine. That should work.
I brought several plants that I use in my medicinal teas to plant in the garden, though I didn't plant them today. I staged the plants that I most want to plant, once the garden is in a bit better shape for planting. Soon!
That was basically my day! Bootloader battles, Hive tasks, and some garden and plant work. Everything will come back into balance soon. I haven't used Arch for over a year and a half, so my intese focus to get everything working and up to date is to be expected. I can't wait until I can get back into all the super cool stuff that I can do on Arch! Also soon!
On that note I'll wrap up this post, and do a few more Hive tasks before bed. It's already 10:30PM, so I want to get to sleep ASAP. I appreciate you all so much! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.
Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚
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