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Am 12.07.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Mike Gilbert: |
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> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote: |
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>> OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns |
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>> about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly. |
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>> Here is the newsitem covering this change. |
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>> William |
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> This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl |
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> (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or |
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> find someone who can do it for you. |
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Not only bootloader installers. |
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It will break things like efibootmgr which can be used to change EFI |
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bootmanager's behavior/configuration. |
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I am not sure how sane these tools react when efivar is RO. |
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Regards |
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-Sven |
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