Following the Arch wiki, I built a custom kernel for the first time ever. It was easier that I thought it’d be, probably because the Arch wiki is so thorough and because I didn’t make that many changes… I just enabled a few FireWire related options as per this guide in order to work on this project (or this).

Results/takeaways

  • The OS ran fine with the new kernel 💃
  • I learned how to manually create GRUB entries 🔧
  • I learned that I don’t even have to create new GRUB entries, since I can simply point to the new kernel image and initramfs from the bootloader menu 🪛
  • I learned that my 5800X3D runs well (compiles the new kernel blazingly fast) with all cores set to negative 30 in the UEFI
  • FireWire is dead 💀

Tiny followup on that project
That old GPU did something to the UEFI (possibly CMOS?), because even after removing all potentially incompatible hardware and reinstalling my modern GPU, I still got that same error message, saying that the system was forces to boot in CSM mode. Only by resetting the UEFI settings was I able to restore the system to a working state. I admit, I panicked.

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    2·
    15 hours ago

    Oh shiet… well, I pray my 5800X3D survives a little longer. I’d hate to upgrade in this economy D: …

    I’ve had it since it came out, I think. I did have some random reboots, but that was with one of its newer (?) relatives, an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G with Radeon Graphics. And I believe it was because it had ran out of RAM and SWAP or the like…

    ALSO LOOK: https://www.wanture.com/tech/amd-ryzen-7-5800x3d-am4-relaunch-q2/

    I just happened to come across this now. How many years later and the re-release it?! xD Hilarious…

    • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Haha, yeah i hope mine still works for years to come too, cause even before the price hikes i was already planning on riding out am4 as long as possible. It’ll probably be fine though, only downside is that less negative offset means it gets hotter, which kinda messes with my current fan curve and fans ramp up all the time now. I think i heard about that relaunch. To me it didn’t sound like a bad idea initially, but i think they also jacked up the price which makes me feel like it’s just not worth it.