a...@absd.org (David Brownlee) writes:
>Our gpt(8) states "bootme flag is used to indicate which partition
>should be booted by UEFI boot code", which could be read either way.
The flag is used to find the partition to load /boot, /boot.cfg or
the kernel from. The boot disk information is also
On Mon, 18 Sept 2023 at 18:21, Martin Husemann wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 06:14:58PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Specifically in the absence of any other information (empty devname?
> > etc), would it not be reasonable to fall back to the bootme marked
> > filesystem as a root
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 06:14:58PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> Specifically in the absence of any other information (empty devname?
> etc), would it not be reasonable to fall back to the bootme marked
> filesystem as a root filesystem candidate? I'm thinking about
> minimally configured disks
On Sun, 17 Sept 2023 at 23:25, Robert Elz wrote:
> [...]
>
> That is what you MUST NOT do, BOOTME has nothing whatever to do
> with what is root. That's the part that must be done some other way.
>
> (The bit where the flag was copied into the wedge info was just a
> layer violation, and easy
