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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:44:16
Message-Id: 20170712214408.GA13328@whubbs1.gaikai.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only by Mike Gilbert
1 On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:03:25PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
3 > > OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns
4 > > about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly.
5 > >
6 > > Here is the newsitem covering this change.
7 > >
8 > > William
9 > >
10 >
11 > This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl
12 > (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or
13 > find someone who can do it for you.
14
15 I'm not stopping anyone from making those updates, so if someone knows
16 what needs to be changed, go for it. :-)
17
18 William

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