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From: Lucas Ramage <ramage.lucas94@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:02:54
Message-Id: CAKkjsY-=8xGZt_HciKwrNoDspF3ATW6MjSyqwkEf-gL+cL-FMA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only by DarKRaveR
1 The documentation is being updated. There is no need to worry about that.
2
3 On Thu, Jul 13, 2017, 8:09 PM DarKRaveR <dark@×××××××××.org> wrote:
4
5 > Am 12.07.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Mike Gilbert:
6 > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
7 > wrote:
8 > >> OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns
9 > >> about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly.
10 > >>
11 > >> Here is the newsitem covering this change.
12 > >>
13 > >> William
14 > >>
15 > > This will break boot loader installers, like grub-install and bootctl
16 > > (systemd-boot). Please update any relevant documents on the wiki, or
17 > > find someone who can do it for you.
18 > >
19 >
20 > Not only bootloader installers.
21 > It will break things like efibootmgr which can be used to change EFI
22 > bootmanager's behavior/configuration.
23 > I am not sure how sane these tools react when efivar is RO.
24 >
25 > Regards
26 >
27 > -Sven
28 >
29 >