01:26 <spuostheterrible> chadmed: yesterday you mentioned you can change your toolchain on gentoo for easier cross compiling, would you mind telling me more about that?

01:32 <chadmed> spuostheterrible: theres a gentoo wiki article that goes through how to set up clang as your system wide toolchain

01:33 <chadmed> go through that on your macbook, then install clang/llvm on your host (doesnt need to be the system toolchain here)

01:33 <chadmed> then set up distcc and whatever

01:33 <chadmed> then in your make.conf, add "-target=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu" to your cflags and cxxflags

01:33 <chadmed> then distcc will use clang on the host system and tell it to compile for arm64

01:34 <chadmed> its easier than setting up a full gcc cross toolchain for aarch64 on your host system, and clang has a few apple specific optimisations that gcc doesnt

01:42 <spuostheterrible> it's seriously that easy? sweet

15:41 <spuostheterrible> would anyone mind telling me how to safely add a new boot option to asahi? last time I asked it went a little something like this: "hey I could probably do this right, but last time I lost all my files and the time before that I bricked my computer. Would anyone mind reassuring me I'm doing it right?" "yeah don't worry you just go through the process again and you'll be fine" me: *destroys

15:41 <spuostheterrible> everything* "guess that's what I get for not keeping backups"

15:47 <chaos_princess> wdym by "boot option"?

15:48 <spuostheterrible> wait, let me try to count my M1 casualties from last year, 3X arch (accidental kde, apfs repartition brick, and overwritten by bsd) , 1X open bsd, quickly followed by 2 fedoras in my panic to recover my ext4 data from the arch I lost after trying to dualboot openbsd, (one was too tiny) and now I've been on debian since 2023, afraid to install anything else

15:49 <spuostheterrible> not last year, I've been on debian for longer than I thought

15:50 <spuostheterrible> chaos_princess: whenever I installed a new os to dualboot, it's like the partition map for my previous os is completely broken somehow

15:50 <chaos_princess> cat /etc/fstab, then post it here

15:50 <spuostheterrible> oh no that's old history

15:51 <spuostheterrible> I meant when I tried adding a 3rd os (2nd sans macos) somehow my partitions for the 2nd broke bad

15:52 <chaos_princess> ok, so, what is the issue rn?

15:52 <spuostheterrible> if I tried booting back into one of those I got a bootloader freakout about how I had no root

15:53 <spuostheterrible> I want to install gentoo without shredding all my data

15:53 <chaos_princess> ok, what do you have installed now?

15:54 <spuostheterrible> Debian. I do backups now but it would still be a shame to lose it.

15:54 <chaos_princess> post `cat /etc/fstab` and `cat /proc/cmdline`

15:56 <spuostheterrible> I don't have a /proc/cmdline, but here's fstab

15:56 <spuostheterrible> UUID="b2987700-28dd-450a-b0e9-5f2e8a121cbb" / ext4 defaults 0 0

15:56 <spuostheterrible> UUID="C3D1-1C1E" /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 0

15:57 <chaos_princess> wdym there is no /proc/cmdline ?

15:57 <chaos_princess> it shoulld be there

15:58 <spuostheterrible> check it: https://0x0.st/8-Dt.txt

15:59 <chaos_princess> its there, line 293

16:00 <spuostheterrible> ah, I made a typo

16:00 <spuostheterrible> BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.5.0-asahi-00780-g62806c2c6f29 root=UUID=b2987700-28dd-450a-b0e9-5f2e8a121cbb ro net.ifnames=0

16:01 <chaos_princess> you should be safe. to make sure, reboot into macos, split your macos partition into two (partitions, not containers), and try booting debian again.

16:03 <spuostheterrible> since the last time I had this issue was 2023-11-12 I don't remember exactly what happened, and even though I'm much better with linux stuff than I was then, the fact I managed to break things every new install attempt, I'm a little worried is all.

16:05 <spuostheterrible> how much better? Still messing up cat, but better.

16:07 <chaos_princess> this is why the check, if your os breaks due to repartitioning, you will be able to recover by merging the partitions