Re: Soft RAID and EFI systems

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On 02/02/2014 05:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Feb 2, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> 
>> That's funny because one of the reasons I want to use UEFI firmware
>> is to get rid of grub (I don't like it and the way it has become
>> such a bloated beast): since /boot is vfat and has its own
>> partition, I prefer use a much simpler bootloader such as
>> gummyboot.

Ditching the bootloader is possible:

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/

It seems to me that you should be able to create a raid1 v1.0 MD array
of your EFI support partitions, and put the combined and signed
kernel/initramfs onto it (mirrored to all member drives).

Then set the UEFI bios to try each device's ESP in turn.

Untested ... :-)

Phil
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