Hi Jiri, 於 日，2013-04-14 於 23:25 +0200，Jiri Slaby 提到： > Hi, > > after update to 3.8, every update of the kernel ends up in an unbootable > machine. It is due to the following commit: > commit 68d929862e29a8b52a7f2f2f86a0600423b093cd > Author: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Mar 2 19:40:17 2013 -0500 > > efi: be more paranoid about available space when creating variables > > efibootmgr which tries to add an entry and silently fails when writing > to /sys/firmware/efi/vars/new_var with -ENOSPC. > > There are many entries in there: > # efibootmgr > BootCurrent: 000D > Timeout: 0 seconds > BootOrder: > 0018,0000,0001,0002,0003,0007,0008,0009,000A,000B,000C,000D,000E,000F,0010,0011,0012 > Boot0000 Setup > Boot0001 Boot Menu > Boot0002 Diagnostic Splash Screen > Boot0003 Lenovo Diagnostics > Boot0004 Startup Interrupt Menu > Boot0005 ME Configuration Menu > Boot0006 Rescue and Recovery > Boot0007* USB CD > Boot0008* USB FDD > Boot0009* ATAPI CD0 > Boot000A* ATA HDD0 > Boot000B* ATA HDD1 > Boot000C* ATA HDD2 > Boot000D* USB HDD > Boot000E* PCI LAN > Boot000F* ATAPI CD1 > Boot0010 Other CD > Boot0011* ATA HDD3 > Boot0012 Other HDD > Boot0013* IDER BOOT CDROM > Boot0014* IDER BOOT Floppy > Boot0015* ATA HDD > Boot0016* ATAPI CD: > Boot0017* PCI LAN > Boot0018* Linux > > > Remaining size is about 20k, added entry size is hundreds bytes, store > size is 64k. > > Obviously lowering the limitation from 1/2 to 1/4 fixes the problem for > me because it always worked on my setup to store a new entry... > > Any ideas how to overcome that? It would be better to blacklist bad > machines rather than whitelist good ones, right? > > thanks, I think I just got the same situation on my side with Acer machine. I am trying Matthew's new patchset hope can avoid this situation: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/15/473 Thanks a lot! Joey Lee -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
