Posts tagged: limine
Limine as a Biological Bootloader — Choose Your Mode
What if limine managed your biological firmware? A satirical take on multi-booting human mode vs cyborg mode.
I Wrote a Fish Script to Check If My Laptop Will Survive the Next Suspend
A 5-stage fish shell script that verifies the amdgpu dcdebugmask fix is active after every reboot — checking /proc/cmdline, Limine config, DMCUB errors, suspend cycles, and module health.
The Six Bits That Fixed My Laptop — amdgpu.dcdebugmask Explained
Second suspend hard-froze my laptop until I changed one kernel parameter from 0x10 to 0x600. Here's what each bit actually does inside the AMD display driver.
My Laptop Froze on the Second Suspend — I Had to Hold the Power Button
First suspend worked fine. Second suspend required a hard power-off. The logs pointed to an AMD DMCUB firmware hang, and dcdebugmask=0x10 wasn't strong enough.
My Screen Died After a Kernel Switch — It Probably Wasn't the Kernel
Switched to the LTS kernel for stability and got a black screen instead. The logs pointed toward an AMD display-firmware/PSR interaction, and the proposed workaround can persist through kernel updates via a Limine drop-in.
CachyOS Limine Default Kernel — Following Upstream
How CachyOS configures Limine bootloader entries for multiple kernels, and what the upstream default actually is.