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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system"
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:02:49
Message-Id: CAJ0EP411hjKhCx9cVE2GywC7iMPpE22=ztLsFigh1dQKrBsNbQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] efibootmgr "Could not prepare Boot variable: Read-only file system" by Rich Freeman
1 On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> I can't recall if I did this myself in a moment of security induced
5 >> inspiration. I doubt I did. So how did this happen? What is responsible for
6 >> mounting this fs?
7 >>
8 >
9 > It looks like this never did turn into a news item:
10 > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/35304b0db4de9e06fea322275379fa81
11 >
12 > You can remount it as rw if your tools don't do it automatically. It
13 > might not hurt to file a bug if one doesn't already exist for the tool
14 > that isn't remounting it.
15
16 Please bother efibootmgr upstream about it, or bother the OpenRC
17 maintainer who decided to break things.

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