On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:27:36PM +0300, Elad Alfassa wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > Remove the requirement that the ESP be $BOOT. The downside of that is > > that we'll then have *yet another* partition (/boot, because we want > > kernels stored on a filesystem that supports xattrs, /boot/efi for the > > ESP, /boot/whatever for storing the config fragments) which isn't a huge > > issue for GPT but would be annoying with MBR. > > > > Can't we store those fragments in the same filesystem /boot is on? We can, but the spec requires that it be VFAT, and it's not reasonable for us to make /boot VFAT (no selinux labelling, for instance). > On that note, is there any way we could verify bootloader configuration > before reboot, so we could > automatically revert to a known-working (ie. the config file we booted > with) configuration in case > the update messed something up? We could probably extract the grub config parser into an external tool that performed at least minimal verification of each option. That's not a bad plan. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
