Hello,
background:
i installed zorin os on a 500gb sata drive. had some issues but fixed, i like it so much so i decided to get rid of Windows 11 installation and stay with Zorin OS only.
windows was installed in an hardware raid of two 1tb nvme disks.
the kick
with the help of Gemini i moved the zorin installation to the raid, of course i had to disable it in bios and created a software raid with MDADM
1st disk=500mb uefi partition + linux raid partition
2nd disk linux raid partition
it worked but i have 2 issues, boot menu is still shown even with GRUB_TIMEOUT=0 and GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
i fixed adding GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=0
now the menu is not shown.
however as soon as the system boot the error message appear:
ERROR: DISKFILLER WRITES ARE NOT SUPPORTED
and the system still wait for a keypress or about 10 seconds.
then Zorin OS boot very quick and without apparently any issues.
May anyone help me fix this please? i dunno want to do a from zero reinstallation, i had make lot of personalization, installation and so on. please!
Many thanks
I think you set a goal but are trying to fix what is not broken, here.
What you have is an accomplishment.
Yes... a user might focus on having the fastest boot possible. Is it really a gain?
Access to the grub menu allows access to the Recovery Menu.
This can be critical when you need it and cutting off access to it can create a major headache during that time of need. Is it worth it, to gain a few seconds of boot?
Boot can be set to three seconds instead of ten seconds if someone wants to shorten it.
This is due to using RAID. In your grub file, you can try setting the saved default to false to prevent write.
GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=false
Got to agree with that. I would never set grub timeout to zero. False economy.
Hello, you fixed the DISKFILLER error. thank you so much!
about recovery menu. is it possible to configure it so it can be visible if i press a key?
i mean, i set wait time to 3 seconds, but i dont want to see the menu, only if press a key within 3 seconds the menu will appear, (like entering bios menu) is it possible?
I do not believe so, no. The Recovery Menu is a sub-selection of the Grub Menu.
Assuming you have formatted the partition that holds Zorin to Ext4, you have installwd a journaling system (the same as NTFS). When I was an IT Contractor for a local government's preferred IT partner, the NTFS guru told me of a Director of one of the local government departments had a bad habit of changing the boot time to zero seconds which potentially could lead to an non-bootable machine. 5 seconds was the lowest recommendation, possibly 3 seconds. When Zorin used to have GRUB showing as default, it was always set to 10 seconds. When I installed Zorin 17.2 Core something went wrong with my login password. To use the standard method of changing my password via a 'root' terminal meant I had to use the live boot media to run boot repair. This then made GRUB viewable and I could then use recovery mode to sort the password issue out. What I have observed with both PCLOS Debian they both boot with a GRUB menu, and both default to a 5 second timeout.