Re: Make systemd-localed modify the kernel commandline for the initrd keymap?

[Colin Guthrie <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Walters wrote on 01/10/2019 20:33:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2019, at 6:08 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
>> i.e maybe write down a spec, that declares how to store settings
>> shared between host OS, boot loader and early-boot kernel environment
>> on systems that have no EFI NVRAM, and then we can make use of
>> that. i.e. come up with semantics inspired by the boot loader spec for
>> finding the boot partition to use, then define a couple of files in
>> there for these params.
> 
> I like the idea in general but it would mean there's no mechanism to "roll back" to a previous configuration by default, which is a quite important part of OSTree (and other similar systems).   (Relatedly this is also why ostree extends the BLS spec with an atomically-swappable /boot/loader symlink, though I want to get away from that eventually)

Just out of curiosity, when /boot is the EFI (as is recommended in the
BLS) how do you deal with symlinks when the FS is FAT based?


Col

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