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Has anyone tried booster to replace mkinitcpio? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] patatahooligan 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

understood, so no big issue with grub, cool !