Re: F29 System Wide Change: Make BootLoaderSpec the default

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On Fr, 29.06.18 17:26, Kyle Marek (psppsn96@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> Kernel updates are different. You *have* to reboot in order to run the
> new kernel (except for security updates applied with kpatch) and a
> broken kernel has the potential to simply lock up without even launching
> /sbin/init, for example. In these situations, administrators have to
> manually reboot the machine.

That's not true. UEFI provides interfaces to configure the system
watchdog. This means the boot loader can set up the watchdog right
before starting the kernel, and if userspace doesn't take possesion of
the watchdog in time the system will reboot automatically, triggered
by hardware.

> No amount of unattended failed-boot-check logic in the bootloader can
> run without user intervention when a broken kernel is still running/just
> sitting there.

That's simply not true. UEFI provides everything to make kernel
updates mostly safe.

Lennart

-- 
Lennart Poettering, Red Hat
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