On 04/14/2014 06:16 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 14.04.14 18:01, Francis Moreau (francis.m...@gmail.com) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> "gummiboot install" fails when ESP is MD RAID1 device using metadata 0.9 >> or 1.0. >> >> I don't think using such RAID for ESP would lead to issue. >> >> Is there any reason gummiboot doesn't want to be installed on such >> partition ? > > The installer will make sure that the ESP is on GPT and carries the right > type UUID. We do that for safety reasons, since that's the requirement > made by UEFI, and how the bootloader is found. > > You cannot place the ESP on sw RAID, since the firmware might want to > write to the ESP (most won't do that, but could, and the tianocore > implemenation you use in qemu certainly does).
Does UEFI allow firmware to write to ESP ? If so that would indeed prevent ESP to be on soft RAID. Thanks _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
