On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sure, UEFI has the capability, but it's not going to be used when simply >> booting the system normally. All the firmware does in that case is mount >> the partition and execute the bootloader it finds there. > > Why not? It's completely safe when the OS is Mac OS or Windows. It's > sometimes safe when the OS is Linux. It's even possibly useful: you > might want to have an ESP bootloader, shim, or whatever that logs > errors. I bet there's at least one UEFI firmware out there that backs > up settings to ESP and/or backs up a whole firmware image to ESP. > > It would be a shame for a Linux "RAID" install to corrupt the ESP just > because you did something unusual in various UEFI menus. The standard EFI Shell can do exactly this. It has commands like 'edit' and 'mkdir'. I think that using them should not cause filesystem corruption. --Andy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
