Dear Lennart, On 2019-11-27 13:13, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mi, 27.11.19 12:43, Paul Menzel (pmenzel+systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> A partition type GUID [1] for the partition to be mounted under `/boot` >> when started with Linux would be nice. For example, there is already one >> for FreeBSD /boot [2]. >> >> As you seem to have requested one for the freedesktop.org shared boot >> loader partition already, could you please share the application process >> for such a partition type GUID? > > The great thing about UUIDs are that they are an unmanaged > namespace. Anyone can pick one, as long they generate them properly > (which today means pulling from a good /dev/urandom). > > Hence there's no requesting or registration, you just pick one, > that's it. > > I don't know what you expect /boot to be. In the systemd context we > defined the "extended boot loader partition", which is a place you can > place kernels and stuff, if you don't want to use the EFI ESP for > that, and sd-boot and our userspace tools look in it too. It's > automatically discovered and mounted to /boot if it exists, by > systemd-gpt-auto-generator. > > This extended boot loader partition as GPT type UUID > bc13c2ff-59e6-4262-a352-b275fd6f7172 and that's documented in the > systemd-gpt-auto-generator(8) man page. Yes, I wanted to use that, but as it was formatted with ext4 the boot failed [3]. > -- > Lennart Poettering, Berlin A space is missing after your signature separator [4]. Kind regards, Paul [3]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/14165 [4]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signatur_(E-Mails_und_Postings)#Form
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