Colin Walters wrote on 01/10/2019 20:33: > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> i.e maybe write down a spec, that declares how to store settings >> shared between host OS, boot loader and early-boot kernel environment >> on systems that have no EFI NVRAM, and then we can make use of >> that. i.e. come up with semantics inspired by the boot loader spec for >> finding the boot partition to use, then define a couple of files in >> there for these params. > > I like the idea in general but it would mean there's no mechanism to "roll > back" to a previous configuration by default, which is a quite important part > of OSTree (and other similar systems). (Relatedly this is also why ostree > extends the BLS spec with an atomically-swappable /boot/loader symlink, > though I want to get away from that eventually)
Just out of curiosity, when /boot is the EFI (as is recommended in the BLS) how do you deal with symlinks when the FS is FAT based? Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
