Gummiboot is my favorite boot loader, mainly due to it loading the kernel from the EFI partition and thus not requiring a third partition for /boot when you use encrypted root.
I first became familiar with it on Arch Linux well after their switch to systemd; but despite this project now being integrated with our least appreciated init just like udev, the current version in Debian (48) has completely no tie-ins with it! The reason the Debian package has a Pre-Depends: on systemd is because an "UUID" is created by systemd's postinstall script as /etc/machine-id, and used for boot loader entries and naming the folder in which kernel and ramdisk will be copied (example: /boot/efi/96b848338a47456e9112721c563aed63/3.16.0-4-amd64/initrd) -- but ironically this requirement is not in Arch, as entries are not autogenerated, and not requiring /boot to support Unix features means it's common to directly install the kernel in the root of the EFI partition!! I've modified it to obtain this serial number from D-Bus, which while still not ideal is arguably a better stopgap measure until, in my vision, this feature is completely removed in favor of putting version number/hostname/whatever directly in the file names. You may download (conditional needed, I'm not sure I've included all required files) the source code with this fix at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1OGj4xwAe9_MlhKZTZjdUVIaTg&authuser=0 →→ A precompiled package with the above changes is also available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1OGj4xwAe9_cEw5UnV0X3FYWGM/view While my contribution -- a replacement path to a file -- is most likely not original enough to be copyrightable, if by any chance it is, consider it freely usable as per the WTFPLv2! All feedback appreciated! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng