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Generation select corrupt/incorrect

TLMcNulty opened this issue · comments

I'd expect the NixOS generation/GRUB looking menu to be centered, and to display a countdown/menu options as it does in a stock configuration.

Been looking on the NixOS discourse, netted nothing. My post there - https://discourse.nixos.org/t/corrupted-inappropriate-bootloader-generation-select-text/42393

As detailed there I've run the relevant NixOS steps I could find for regenerating the bootloader.

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It functions as I'd expect but the menu options at the bottom are dirty.

This is just how it is due to some deficiencies in U-Boot. Allegedly there is a U-Boot fix in the pipeline but it hasn't been released to the Fedora Asahi Remix yet so I haven't taken it. It does not bother me much personally. I suppose it could be annoying if you need to edit the command line.

This is a fine answer, thank you! I was concerned I'd been unlucky during setup. I'll refer to u-boot docs and source to investigate further. As it is functional it doesn't bother me much either.